HP Web Jetadmin - OXPd Solution Installer in HP Web Jetadmin

OVERVIEW

This white paper discusses the HP OXPd:SolutionInstaller as it relates to solution management. To gain

the most benefits from this white paper, you should be familiar with the following HP Web Jetadmin

features:

 Groups

 Filtering

 Viewing device information

 Firmware upgrades

 Templates

 Group policies

SOLUTION MANAGEMENT

HP Web Jetadmin is the network printer management tool provided by HP. For more information

about HP Web Jetadmin, visit www.hp.com/go/webjetadmin. Click the Self Help and

Documentation tab to view all user documents for HP Web Jetadmin, including install guides, user

guides, and white papers.

HP Web Jetadmin provides an enhanced set of features to facilitate the deployment and management

of device applications (solutions) across a company’s fleet of printing and imaging devices. To take

full advantage of these features, a partner solution must be compatible with OXPd:SolutionInstaller.

OVERVIEW OF THE ECOSYSTEM

The solution management features in HP Web Jetadmin interact with OXPd:SolutionInstaller to instruct

the device to install, configure, and license itself using external depots. OXPd:SolutionInstaller

(referred to as SI in Figure 1) returns status information that can be monitored in HP Web Jetadmin.

There are several parts of this ecosystem:

 HP Web Jetadmin server

 License depot

 Application depot

 OXPd:SolutionInstaller

 Configuration depot

 Solutions

Figure 1: HP Web Jetadmin Solution Management and HP OXPd:SolutionInstaller