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GETTING AROUND IN HP WEB JETADMIN

CONTENTS

Overview ................................................................................................................................ 2

Top menu bar features .............................................................................................................. 2

File ...................................................................................................................................... 2

View .................................................................................................................................... 3

Tools ................................................................................................................................... 4

Help .................................................................................................................................... 5

Left navigation menu and right-click menu features ....................................................................... 5

Device Management ............................................................................................................. 6

Overview .......................................................................................................................... 6

All Devices ........................................................................................................................ 6

Groups ............................................................................................................................. 7

Discovery .......................................................................................................................... 7

Configuration .................................................................................................................... 8

Alerts .............................................................................................................................. 10

Firmware ........................................................................................................................ 10

Reports ........................................................................................................................... 11

Storage .......................................................................................................................... 13

Solutions ......................................................................................................................... 14

Print Management ............................................................................................................... 14

Application Management ..................................................................................................... 15

Overview ........................................................................................................................ 15

User Security ................................................................................................................... 15

Web Jetadmin Management ............................................................................................. 16

Summary of content (17 pages)

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GETTING AROUND IN HP WEB JETADMIN CONTENTS Overview ................................................................................................................................2 Top menu bar features ..............................................................................................................2 File ......................................................................................................................................2 View .................................................
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OVERVIEW HP Web Jetadmin is an imaging and printing device-management solution capable of discovering many different device models from various manufacturers. It includes a broad set of menu features and convenient drop-down lists that make it easy to efficiently manage devices. TOP MENU BAR FEATURES The top menu bar is always present. It changes depending on the application view, presence of plug-ins, or the version of HP Web Jetadmin.
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combination of Supplies, Service, and Media Path Alerts. For more information, see the online help: Device Management > Alerts > Create a Subscription Template. • Configuration Template: Starts the Create Device Configuration Template wizard. These templates are used to store device settings and apply those settings to one or more devices. This can help keep device configurations consistent and make it easy to apply a common set of settings on a regular basis.
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• in the left navigation pane under All Devices. To make their choices, users move the filters from Available filters to Selected filters. For more information, see the online help: Introduction to HP Web Jetadmin > Getting Around in HP Web Jetadmin > Top Menu Bar Features > Device Figure 4—View > Preferences > Device Identification page Filters. Device Identification (Figure 4): Lets users choose which columns are displayed in device list pages in Device Lists, Device Groups, and the Status tab.
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• Options: Displays the Options menu and details for the first option on that menu. Options lets you manage configuration settings for each view (Figure 6).
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• • Print Management • • Solutions Overview Application Management (Figure 9) • Overview • User Security • Product Update • HP Web Jetadmin Management Figure 9—Collapsed left navigation menu for Application Management The tree breaks up the view’s functionality into organized parts. The Device Management view contains most of the HP Web Jetadmin functionality and, therefore, has the most complex tree. Many parts of the navigation tree have right-click functionality.
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Groups The Groups feature lets you separate devices into subsets (or device groups) to make them more manageable. Putting devices in groups lets you configure multiple devices at the same time. You can add and delete groups, name and rename them, and add or remove devices from existing groups. Expand Groups to see all of the groups added to HP Web Jetadmin. For more information, see the online help: Device Management > Groups > All About Groups.
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• History: Displays the discovery history. For more information, see the online help: Device Management > Discovery > Discovery History. • Templates: Lists all of the discovery templates you have saved. For more information, see the online help: Device Management > Discovery > Discovery Templates. Right-click functionality for Discovery includes: • Discover devices: Launches the Device Discovery wizard. This wizard is used to launch or schedule any type of active discovery method.
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selected, all configurable items usually do not apply to all devices. Some options may be repeated multiple times because different settings are supported on different devices. If it is not clear which device or device model a particular setting applies to, holding the mouse over the name in the configuration settings displays a tooltip with additional information. The availability of configuration options depends on the device model, network card, and firmware version.
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• View configuration history: Displays the configuration history (identical to the menu option Configuration > History described above). For more information, see the online help: Device Management > Configuration > View Configuration History. Alerts Alerts are one of the most important features of HP Web Jetadmin, allowing administrators to proactively manage large printing fleets. For more information, see the online help: Device Management > Alerts > All About Alerts.
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and if the version of the image is newer than the version on the device, an upgrade is possible. By default, HP Web Jetadmin cannot be used to downgrade firmware, except by manually altering a configuration file. Firmware updates can be scheduled to occur at any time. Firmware update retry is also available in cases where an update failed or a device was not on the network.
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of a trigger. For more information, see the online help: Device Management > Reports > Data Collection. • Report Generation: After data collection has been performed, users can generate reports. The type of reports that can be generated is dependent on the type of data collection that was run. For more information, see the online help: Device Management > Reports > Report Generation. • Archived Reports: Users can request that a report be saved as an HTML document anywhere on the network.
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• Edit report template: After a report template has been created, it can be edited. For more information, see the online help: Device Management > Reports > Report Generation > Edit a Report Template. • Delete report template: A report template can be deleted at any time. For more information, see the online help: Device Management > Reports > Report Generation > Delete a Report Template. • Copy report template: Users can copy and edit report templates without affecting the original template.
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• Copy storage template: Copies a storage template. The copied template is added to the list of existing templates and the original template is unchanged. For more information, see the online help: Device Management > Storage > Copy a Storage Template. Solutions Solutions extends HP Web Jetadmin functionality to include new licensable and configurable solutions supplied through third parties.
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Application Management Figure 11 shows the left navigation menu for the Application Management view. The Application Management view provides many features that help you configure and manage devices on your network. For more information about Application Management, see the online help: Application Management > All About Application Management. Overview The Overview page displays all of the features of Application Management in the form of its various task modules.
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• Edit role: After a role has been created, you can edit it to change its permissions. The only role you cannot edit is the Administrator role. For more information, see the online help: Application Management > User Security > Roles > Edit a Role. • Delete role: You can delete any role in HP Web Jetadmin except for the Administrator role. For more information, see the online help: Application Management > User Security > Roles > Delete a Role.
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