Xerox Print Advisor Administrator Guide
Xerox® Print Advisor
Administration Guide
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About Xerox® Print Advisor ...................................................................... |
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Print Advisor Architecture................................................................................................................. |
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Xerox® Print Advisor Client .................................................................................................. |
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Xerox® Print Advisor Application Server........................................................................ |
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Xerox® Print Advisor’s Impact on your Existing Print Environment............................. |
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Xerox® Print Advisor Data Security.............................................................................................. |
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Xerox® Print Advisor Application Server Availability ........................................................... |
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Impact on Networks............................................................................................................................ |
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Ease of Installation.............................................................................................................................. |
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Administration Requirements ........................................................................................................ |
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Installing Xerox® Print Advisor ............................................................... |
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System Requirements......................................................................................................................... |
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Supported Platforms........................................................................................................................ |
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Using a Proxy Server ........................................................................................................................ |
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Using a Domain Service Account............................................................................................... |
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Assessing Network Impact.................................................................... |
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Network Traffic Generated by Xerox® Print Advisor ........................................................ |
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Network Impact – Daily Print Volumes ...................................................................... |
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Putting Network Impact into Perspective ................................................................. |
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Planning Xerox® Print Advisor Deployment ................................... |
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Deployment Overview..................................................................................................................... |
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Setting Your Assessment Goals...................................................................................... |
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Understanding Your Corporate IT Environment.................................................... |
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Understanding How Your Print Infrastructure is Configured .......................... |
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Choosing your Deployment Options........................................................................................ |
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Print Server-only Deployment ......................................................................................... |
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Installing Xerox® Print Advisor to Workstations only (Direct IP |
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Environments)......................................................................................................................... |
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Workstation and Print Server Deployment............................................................... |
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Installing Xerox® Print Advisor on Print Clusters.................................................... |
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Installing Xerox® Print Advisor on Citrix and Terminal Servers....................... |
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Xerox® Print Advisor Security ............................................................... |
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Xerox® Print Advisor Client Security ......................................................................................... |
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Xerox® Print Advisor Application Server Security............................................................... |
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Authentication and Authorization ............................................................................................ |
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Port Requirements ............................................................................................................................ |
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Print Advisor |
Print Advisor Architecture
Delivered as a hosted service, there are two components that make up Xerox® Print Advisor. These components include the Xerox® Print Advisor Client, which is deployed within your organization, and the Xerox® Print Advisor Application Server (hosted by Xerox®). The components communicate over the Internet. To ensure the highest level of security, all communication is encrypted using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).
Xerox® Print Advisor Client
The Xerox® Print Advisor Client is deployed in your organization and is used to track print activity. When a user prints, Xerox® Print Advisor tracks the print and analyzes it, determining the number of pages, pages printed in color, tiered billing that each page falls in, application, printer used, duplex selection, etc. Based on the information about the print job, Xerox® Print Advisor may or may not display a user notification.
Note: The print job NEVER leaves your organization’s network. Xerox® Print Advisor analyzes the print job internally and only gathers the print job attributes or meta-data.
To address the different print architectures, Xerox® Print Advisor offers several different deployment options. To learn more, see the “Planning Xerox® Print Advisor Deployment” section later in this guide.
Xerox® Print Advisor Application Server
The Xerox® Print Advisor Application Server is hosted by Xerox®. It is responsible for delivering the administration portal as well as storing the meta-data about each print job. This architecture allows for the fast deployment of Xerox® Print Advisor into your organization.
Note: The availability of the Xerox® Print Advisor Application Server in no way affects your organization’s printing. For example, if the Xerox® hosting service is not available, printing will continue within your organization.
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About Xerox® Print Advisor
Xerox® Print Advisor’s Impact on your Existing Print Environment
Xerox® Print Advisor is very simple to install and can start tracking printING without the need to change any part of your existing print infrastructure. Xerox® Print Advisor does not interfere with or change your existing print environment.
Note: Xerox® Print Advisor DOES NOT alter or change your existing print infrastructure.
Unlike other print-management solutions, Xerox® Print Advisor does NOT require you to:
Deploy a custom print driver.
Change print drivers, print processors, port monitors or any print environment setting.
Alter or redefine print queues.
Add a new print spooler-environment.
Add additional hardware or software.
The benefits of the Xerox® Print Advisor architecture include:
Rapid deployment.
No additional hardware or software.
No single point of failure.
Xerox® Print Advisor offers customers the ability to capture print-data attributes without the risk of negatively impacting your existing print environment.
Xerox® Print Advisor Data Security
Xerox® and Xerox® Print Advisor use a comprehensive range of security measures to ensure the safe storage and transmission of your organization’s print meta-data. Xerox® Print Advisor transmits only data that is relevant to your print jobs and your print environment. All data that is transmitted between the Xerox® Print Advisor Clients within your organization and the Xerox® Print Advisor Application Server is secured using SSL (Secured Sockets Layer), the same level of security used by banks. In addition, temporary data stored by the Xerox® Print Advisor Client within your organization is encrypted.
In addition to the data transmission security, there is comprehensive physical securing of the Xerox® Print Advisor Application Server. This includes limited access to the facility through biometric access.
To learn more about security, see the Understanding Xerox® Print Advisor Security section later in this guide.
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About Xerox® Print Advisor
Xerox® Print Advisor Application
Server Availability
The Xerox® Print Advisor Application Server is hosted in a facility that offers broad network availability. In the unlikely event that there is a network outage, or the Application Server is not available for a period of time during maintenance windows, this will have no impact on your organization’s ability to print. Xerox® Print Advisor will continue to operate within your organization’s print environment, securely caching the print meta-data that is captured during the network outage. When the network connectivity is restored, the Xerox® Print Advisor Client transmits the cached information to the Xerox® Print Advisor Application Server.
Your organization’s print is not impacted by a loss of network connectivity.
Impact on Networks
We understand your network is a critical resource within your organization. Xerox® Print Advisor takes a variety of measures to ensure that it will deliver maximum value with minimal impact to your infrastructure. Relative to the network traffic generated within your organization from users printing, Xerox® Print Advisor increases this print-related network traffic only marginally. Putting this in perspective; the network traffic generated by Xerox® Print Advisor for each user per day is approximately 50 KB. This is less traffic than you would see for an average web page.
To learn more about network impact, see Assessing Network Impact later in this guide.
Ease of Installation
Xerox® Print Advisor is as easy to deploy as any standard software. The installation takes only a few minutes. Xerox® Print Advisor is delivered through a standard MSI (Microsoft® Installer) package and can easily be bundled into an SMS (Short Message Service) package or other push technology and rolled out to the enterprise. Once installed, Xerox® Print Advisor does not require a reboot and only requires 25 MB of disk space.
To learn more, please see the Xerox® Print Advisor Installation Guide.
Administration Requirements
Delivered as a turnkey solution, Xerox® Print Advisor does not require any administration to get started. Once deployed, there are minimal administration requirements unless there is a need to change a system parameter or request a report.
Xerox® Print Advisor does not require print administrators to administer print queues or printer information within the product. Xerox® Print Advisor detects new users to the system and automatically adds them to the database. In addition, it discovers newly added printers that are connected to Xerox® Print Advisor-monitored workstations or print servers, and starts tracking prints to these printers immediately.
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