An embroidery data producing device is disclosed producing embroidery data on which an embroidery sewing machine forms an embroidery pattern along another pattern previously formed on cloth held by a cloth holding frame. The time offset indicates an offset between the time zone that is used at the sender’s computer system and a base time zone. A lever is operatively attached to an underside of the game board and in communication with a man game piece. Operating in accordance with the presented method, the service provisioning tool inspects low-level managed entities in the containment hierarchy and, if each managed entity of a group of low-level managed entities which provide a unitary function is unavailable, then the operational state of a corresponding high-level managed entity is set to the unavailable state.