An image forming apparatus is provided, which includes a communication interface (CI) to search at least one connectable control point (CP), an event management unit to set event notification information for the CP found by the search, and if an event occurs in the image forming apparatus, to select the CP to receive a notification of the event based on the event notification information, a storage unit to store the set event notification information, and a digital living network alliance (DLNA) stack to control the CI so that the event is notified to the selected CP.