1. An information processing apparatus for controlling a print system formed by connecting a plurality of printers via a network, comprising: management means for managing print schedules of the plurality of printers; monitor means for monitoring status data of the plurality of printers; selection means for, when any failure has occurred in a printer serving as an output destination of print data as a result of monitoring by said monitor means, selecting an alternative printer that executes alternative print processing of the print data with reference to the print schedules managed by said management means; determination means for determining, based on printer information of the alternative printer selected by said selection means and the print schedule of the print data in the printer that has caused the failure, whether or not the alternative print processing is to be executed; and executing means for executing the alternative print processing on the basis of the determination result of said determination means.