Axis 5500 User Manual page 68

Print Server Management Methods
Monitor Printers
Setting up a Printer
Group
Printer Status
To Open an
Independent
Monitoring Window:
Additional
Information
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Treating a number of printers as one group with a group name makes
monitoring easier when you have several printers on the network. For instance,
you may group all critical printers in a High Priority group, and have less
important printers in a Low Priority group.
1. Click on the Monitoring Printers folder.
2. Select New Printer Group from the File menu or pop-up menu, or click
the New Group Button on the toolbar.
3. Enter a name for the printer group in the dialog box and click OK.
4. Click on the folder of the new group you have just created.
5. Select Add Printer from the File menu or pop-up menu, or click the Add
Printer Button.
6. An Add Printer dialog window will appear. Double click the required
print server name in this dialog box to reveal the print server ports.
Select the printer you wish to monitor by clicking its name.
7. Alter the name of the selected printer, if required, then click Add. The
printer will appear in the right hand section of the main window.
Repeat this procedure to setup the printers you wish to monitor, creating more
groups as required.
The printer status is shown in words and by change of icon color.
Additional printer status messages are available for some printers and print
servers. Please refer to their respective manuals. These additional messages are
mapped to an appropriate printer status color according to their nature.
• Green Ready or Busy (Normal operation).
• Yellow Off Line.
• Red Out of Paper.
• Gray Printer disconnected.
1. Click on the folder of the group you wish to monitor.
2. Select Monitor from the File menu or pop-up menu, or click the
Monitor Button on the toolbar.
A new window will appear that can be positioned as you require. When this
window is minimized, its color will represent the status of the worst case
printer in the group according to the color table above.
For additional information, please refer to the AXIS NetPilot on-line help.
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