Lexmark MarkVision Professional User Manual page 38

• Number of retries to perform when a device does not respond: This specifies the number
of attempted retries before an address is ignored. Setting this value beyond 1 does not
normally provide greater accuracy. Setting this value to zero (0) disables retries, which may
substantially increase speed with little impact on accuracy.
Note: Each Discovery Profile can have its own advanced settings.
Import / Export buttons
You can use the Import and Export buttons to import or export profiles for discovery. They are saved
in the industry standard XML format.
Load / Save buttons
The Save button saves the information in the Devices to Include on the Server and Devices to
Exclude from the Server fields as a text file, which can later be retrieved using the Load button.
Scheduling
To schedule discoveries, select the Schedule task from the All Tasks menu.
You can schedule device discoveries to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. This ensures that
the list of devices MarkVision Professional manages is always current. If your device discoveries are
network-intensive, you can schedule them to occur at off hours, when network traffic is at a minimum.
Select the profile that you want to use for the discovery. Then, choose the initial day from the Start
time: box, and select the time at which the discovery is to occur. You can then decide to have the
discovery occur once, daily, weekly, or monthly. When all of your selections are made, click OK. For
more information on scheduling, see
Naming devices
After you have found all of the devices that you want to manage with MarkVision Professional, you
can establish the name that MarkVision will use to identify the device.
MarkVision uses a specific algorithm to determine a device's name. First, it looks to see if a name
has been assigned to it from the Names of Devices task. Then MarkVision looks for the following in
order: TCP/IP address, hostname, IPX address, Serial Number, and then Property Tag. The order of
this list can be changed using the Administrative Settings task.
From the All Tasks menu on the MarkVision Home screen, select Custom Names. With this task,
you can select the devices that you want, and enter any name you want for the device. For example,
My Printer.
Note: You must have administrative access to name devices or to use the Administrative
Settings task.
Scheduling tasks.
Adding and removing devices
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