Installation guide

8 -- Using the Zebra Printer with MSP
The Device Attributes “identity.proxyserver” and “identity.uuid” are guaranteed to be unique and
are internally used by MSP to associate a device and the Windows PC that is acting as a proxy
for that device. But while this value is guaranteed to be unique, it is generally not very friendly and
hence is often not convenient for users managing proxied devices via the MSP Console UI. The
Device Attributes “identity.proxyserverdnsname” and “identity.dnsname” are the assigned network
computer name of the Windows PC and hence may be much more intuitive and useful, although
they are not guaranteed to be unique across all Windows PCs acting as proxies managed by a
given MSP Server.
For more information on the definition and purpose of proxies, see the chapter Understanding
Device Classes and Proxies in Understanding MSP 3.3.1.
Zebra Printer MSP Proxy Plug-In Operation
When a Zebra Printer is connected to a Windows PC, software running on the Windows PC can
discover and control that Zebra Printer via control interfaces that are built-in to the firmware of the
Zebra Printer. The MSP Windows PC Client and the Zebra Printer MSP Proxy-Plug-In collaborate
to permit MSP to manage the Zebra Printer.
Once a Windows PC has been properly configured by installing the MSP Windows PC Client and
the Zebra Printer MSP Proxy Plug-In, the Zebra Printer connected to the Windows PC will be
discovered, reported to MSP, and become an MSP-managed device. Figure 1 below presents a
typical installation.
Figure 1