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Groups
The Groups feature enables logical grouping of printers based on the printer
characteristics. This helps administrators to perform several operations on
multiple printers in a group at once.
OMPE supports three types of printer groups:
• System - Default groups pre-defined by OMPE. You cannot create, modify
or delete system groups.
• Manual Selection - Groups with no rules defined. You can add individual
printers from the network to manual selection groups.
• Rule Based - Groups for which the user defines the rules. OMPE
dynamically adds printers with parameters satisfying the rules into the rule
based group.
NOTE: If a printer satisfies the rules of more than one group, it will be added
to multiple groups.
OMPE defines the following system groups:
• Color - Group of all color printers.
• Mono - Group of all monochromatic printers.
• Critical - Group of printers that are in the critical state . A critical state for a
printer can be: Unable to print, Printer is offline or Printer is out of service.
• Warning - Group of printers that are in the warning state . A warning state
for a printer can be: Input tray out of paper, Output tray full, One or more
consumables low or Warning status sent by the printer.
• Normal - Group of printers that are in the normal state. All printers in this
group have good health and are working normally.
• All Printers - All discovered printers in the network belong to this group.
The All Printers group is the superset of all groups.
• All Blocked Printers - Group of printers that are blocked. Usually printers in
maintenance are assigned to this group.
NOTE: The All Blocked Printers group is exclusive to all other groups.
Blocked printers cannot belong to any other printer group.
To open the Groups window:
1. Launch the Dell OpenManage
TM
Printer Essentials.
2. In the navigation pane, click Home Groups .