Documentation for Printer Activity Monitor

Agent Setup Using Microsoft Active Directory Services

One more method to install the monitoring agents is given below. This method allows mass installation of agents using Active Directory services.

A step-by-step instruction with comments is given below.

Saving Printer Activity Monitor Agent settings to ".REG" file

1. Install Printer Activity Monitor Agent on any computer of the domain as it is described in the previous chapter
2. Then run regedit.exe and export the hive:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Red Line Software\Printer Activity Monitor\Agent

3. Save the resulting file by any name, e. g. pamAgent.reg
   
4. You may also create a text file and insert the following lines into it:

   Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
   
   [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Red Line Software\Printer Activity Monitor\Agent]
   
   "SSM"="0"
   "CSM"="0"
   "DEBUG"="0"
   "IMAGES"="0"
   "DCIP"="Data Center IP address or NetBios name"
   

Creating ".MST" file with registry settings

1. Download and install Microsoft Office Resource Pakage::

   http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/e/d/0eda9ae6-f5c9-44be-98c7-ccc3016a296a/ork.exe

2. Run Custom Installation Wizard
   
3. Select pamAgent.msi setup file
   
4. Choose «Yes», if a warning message appears
   
5. Then create a new ".MST" file
   
6. Click Next several times until the Registry Editing window pops up. Select the ".reg" file you created before, which contains security settings:
   
7. Make sure the registry settings have been applied:
   
8. Click Next several times. Click Finish at the last step.

   To check up the created ".MST" file you may try the test installation of Printer Activity Monitor Agent on a test computer. To do it, run msiexec with the following parameters in the command line (change the paths, given in this example, to names and paths to your .MSI and .MST files):

   msiexec /i "C:\MSI file location\pamAgent.msi" TRANSFORMS="C:\MST file location\pamAgent.MST"

9. Check if the settings have been applied correctly

Installation with help of Microsoft Active Directory service

Microsoft Active Directory service allows automatic installation of Printer Activity Monitor Agent on a group of computers. To perform the installation the user should have administrative privileges in a domain that contains computers, to which Printer Activity Monitor Agent is to be installed. The user should also have a network resource with granted read access (Shared Folder).

A step-by-step instruction with comments is given below.

1. Copy pamAgent.msi package and previously created «.MST» file in a publicly accessible folder, e. g.: \\SERVER\Install\ PamAgent.msi
2. Run MMC "Active Directory Users and Computers" snap-in. You may run this snap-in from Start \ Programs \ Administering
3. Create a new organizational unit (Organizational Unit, OU) or select the existing one, for which Printer Activity Monitor Agent has to be installed. To create a new organizational unit select New \ Organizational Unit in Actions menu of the snap-in
   
4. Select the computers on which Printer Activity Monitor Agent is to be installed, select Move in Actions menu and move the computers to the selected organizational unit
5. Open the properties of the selected organizational unit. To do it, right-click on the organizational unit and select Properties in the contextual menu.
   
6. Go to the Group Policy tab of organizational unit properties
7. Create a new Group Policy Object, GPO by clicking on New button. Give any appropriate name to the object, e. g. pamAgentGPO
8. Go to edit mode of the group policy object, created at the previous step. Select the object and click Edit.
   
9. In the opened snap-in go to Computer Configuration \ Software Settings \ Software Installation section
   
10. Add pamAgent.msi installation package to the list of programs you install. Select Actions \ New \ Package: and type network path to pamAgent.msi package in Open file dialog, in File name line. E. g: \\SERVER\Install\ pamAgent.msi. Then you should select a method of delivering the software to users. Select Advanced.
11. Open properties of the installation package created at the previous step and specify path to previously created «.MST» file in Modifications tab:
    

If you did everything correctly, after the next reboot Printer Activity Monitor Agent will be installed and configured on computers, you've added to the organizational unit.