Chapter 13. Working With Snmp Printers; Snmp Support; About Snmp Communication; Smart-Defaulting Actual Destination Attributes - Ricoh InfoPrint Pro C900AFP Manual

Chapter 13. Working with SNMP printers

SNMP support

InfoPrint Manager supports Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) both
version V1 and V3.
To use SNMP, you must set the use-snmp actual destination attribute to true.
Note: If the destination-tcpip-internet-address actual destination attribute is set,
the use-snmp actual destination attribute is set to true by default.

About SNMP communication

For network printers that work with Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP) and the standard printer management information block (MIB) described
in RFC 1759, the InfoPrint Manager server can use SNMP to automatically:
v Set the default of several InfoPrint Manager actual destination attributes in the
v Detect, report, and recover from printer problems for several conditions, even if
v Assess device specific information directly.
v Execute device commands directly on the device.
InfoPrint Manager includes support for SNMP Version 3 (SNMPv3). This version
enhances the security of SNMP communications between InfoPrint Manager and
printers, and it includes encrypted and authenticated management traffic and
protected remote configuration and device status messages.
SNMPv3 supports these levels of security:
v Minimum- Without authentication and privacy.
v Medium- With authentication, but without privacy.
v Maximum- With authentication and privacy.
To support these security levels, new SNMPv3 actual destination attributes are
added. See "Procedures" on page 54 for more information.

Smart-defaulting actual destination attributes

The InfoPrint Manager server can automatically smart-default an actual destination
attribute for an SNMP printer only if an InfoPrint Manager user does one of these:
v Does not explicitly set the attribute when creating or modifying the actual
v Resets the attribute to the InfoPrint Manager default
Before you create the actual destination and let the server smart-default one or
more actual destination attributes for a printer, InfoPrint recommends that you:
1. Turn the printer on.
printer to the values returned in the standard printer MIB. The actual
destination attributes pertain to trays, media, bins, plexes, and sides. This
process is called smart–defaulting the attributes.
no jobs are currently being printed.
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