MANAGEMENT UNIT, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

A management unit communicates with an image forming apparatus via a first communication path and communicates with an information processing apparatus receiving an operation for maintenance for the image forming apparatus, via a second communication path. The management unit includes a memory for storing specifying information for specifying an image forming apparatus, in association with identification information for identifying the image forming apparatus in local communication between the information processing apparatus and the image forming apparatus. The management unit also includes a specifying-information acquiring unit acquiring the specifying information of an image forming apparatus which is a maintenance target, from an identification-information request signal transmitted from the information processing apparatus via the second communication path, and a transmitting unit transmitting the identification information stored in the memory in association with the acquired specifying information, to the information processing apparatus via the second communication path.