HP Web Jetadmin - Best Practices for Managing Your Assets with HP Web Jetadmin

HP WEB JETADMIN DEVICE GROUPS

As stated above, lists of specific devices are displayed through HP Web Jetadmin Device Groups. In

cases where the application has discovered thousands of devices, it is advantageous to segment

devices into smaller groups. In HP Web Jetadmin, Groups are populated using either Manual or

Automatic methods. Manual group membership is managed by users who can add or remove

devices. Automatic groups are populated with devices based on user specified filter criteria. In either

case, application performance and ease of device management can be enhanced by using groups.

For more information on HP Web Jetadmin Groups, see the online Help.

Device group policies

Create policies for automatically applying

various types of operations on devices.

Figure 3, at right, shows the Edit Group

Policies wizard, which offers templates

created from the various feature sets. The

templates are applied when devices are

added to or removed from a group.

Polices that can be created on a per-

group basis include:

 Enable data collection

 Configure devices

 Upgrade printer or HP Jetdirect

firmware

 Manage device solutions

 Subscribe/unsubscribe to alerts on

devices

 Remove devices from supply group

NOTE In many cases, templates must be created before a group policy can be applied.

HP WEB JETADMIN TEMPLATES

Templates are named objects for storing

HP Web Jetadmin feature settings.

Templates can be applied by a user

through a schedule or, in many cases,

using the Groups Policy feature.

Discovery, Alerts, Data Collections,

Reports, and Configuration can all have

associated templates. In the case of Data

Collection, time can be saved in adding

devices to multiple collection types by

using a Data Collection Template.

Figure 4, at right, shows a confirmation

pane for a Data Collection Template that

combines By User Tracking, Supply

Utilization, and Peak Usage data

collections every five hours. The Data

Collection Template can also be applied

Figure 4—Data Collection Template confirmation pane

Figure 3—Edit Group Policies pane