Installation guide

Chapter 2 – Getting Ready to Manage Zebra Printers -- 9
Planning for Zebra Printer Management
The MSP Windows PC Client and the Zebra Printer MSP Proxy Plug-In installed on a PC is
capable of enabling the management of multiple Zebra Printers via native communications over
WLAN.
Each PC on which the MSP Windows PC Client and the Zebra Printer MSP Proxy Plug-In are
installed must have:
TCP/IP connectivity to an MSP Relay Server through which it will send and receive data
.NET version 2.0 or later
When planning for Zebra Printer management, certain network configuration for the Zebra
Printers should be identified so the MSP Zebra Printer MSP Proxy Plug-In can communicate with
the Zebra printers. The network configuration of the Zebra printers consists of their IP addresses,
their UDP port value, and their TCP port value. The UDP and the TCP port values should be the
same for all the Zebra printers that are to be managed via the same Zebra Printer MSP Proxy
Plug-In. The PC that contains the MSP Windows PC Client and the Zebra Printer MSP Proxy
Plug-In should be on the same network as the Zebra printers.
Important:
An L2 Agent must be disabled if it resides on a Zebra Printer when using the Zebra Printer MSP
Proxy Plug-In. Please refer to Zebra documentation at www.zebra.com or contact Zebra support
for information on how to ensure the L2 Agent is disabled before using the Zebra Printer MSP
Proxy Plug-In to manage the supported Zebra Printers.
Installation Process Overview
The following is a high-level overview of the steps and the order in which they need to be done.
Details and additional explanation of these steps (where available) will be included in later
chapters in this document.
Install the MSP Windows PC Client on the Windows PC according to the instructions found in
Chapter 3 of the MSP Client Software Guide.
Install the Zebra Printer MSP Proxy Plug-In into the MSP Server
Create a Zebra Printer MSP Proxy Plug-In Settings profile to configure network and sampling
parameters.
Create an MSP Bundle that contains the Zebra Printer MSP Proxy Plug-In install package
and the Zebra Printer MSP Proxy Plug-In Settings. The Zebra Printer MSP Proxy Plug-In
install package must be the first step and the Zebra Printer MSP Proxy Plug-In Settings must
be the second step.
Create a Provisioning Policy and use them to deploy the Zebra Printer MSP Proxy Plug-In
and its settings to the PC
Verify that a Zebra Printer is discovered by MSP
Create a Data Collection Request.