Users Guide

Launching Printer console

1. In the OpsMgr console, navigate to Diagram Views.

2. Expand the Diagram Views and select the desired Dell printer.

3. In the Actions or Tasks pane:

a. For OpsMgr 2007 R2, click SNMP Network Device Tasks → Launch Printer Console.

b. For OpsMgr 2012, click Node Tasks → Launch Printer Console.

Customizing Dell Printer Management Pack

The Dell Printer Management Pack allows you to customize discovery, monitoring, and alert rules of your

Dell printers. You can customize the following components:

• Monitors — Assess various conditions that can occur in monitored objects. The result of this

assessment determines the health state of a target and the alerts that are generated.

• Object Discoveries — Finds objects on a network that requires monitoring.

• Rules — Collects data, such as events generated by managed objects.

Unit Monitors

You can customize the following parameters of Dell Printer Management Pack unit monitors by using the

following overrides:

• Enabled — Allows you to enable or disable monitors. You can set the Override setting to True or

False.

NOTE: The default setting is True.

• Interval In Seconds — The frequency (in seconds) with which the management pack polls the Dell

Printers to check the health of a component. The default value for this attribute is 21600 seconds (6

hours).

Object discoveries

You can customize the Dell Printer Management Pack discovery parameters, using the following

overrides:

• Enabled — Allows you to enable or disable. You can set the Override Setting to True or False.

NOTE: The default setting is True.

• Interval in Seconds — Specifies the frequency (in seconds) with which the Dell Printer Management

Pack discovers the component instance and attributes of your Dell printer. The default value for this

attribute is 86400 seconds (24 hours).

Customizing alert rules

You can customize the alert rules by setting override parameters for the rules.

To customize the rules:

1. In the OpsMgr console, click Authoring.

2. In the Authoring pane, navigate to Management Pack Objects, and click Rules.

3. In the Rules pane, expand the Dell printer instance and select a rule.