Case 5
Case description:
- Administrator computer 192.168.0.1
- Print server 192.168.0.2
- Workstation 192.168.0.3
- Workstation 192.168.0.4
- Hardware print server 192.168.0.5
- All computers and devices are connected to one network.
- Printers:
- At 192.168.0.5:
- Physical printer connected to the hardware print server that is connected to the network in its turn.
I.e. this printer is a network printer
- Physical printer connected to the hardware print server that is connected to the network in its turn.
- At 192.168.0.2:
- Local printer connected to the network printer with the address 192.168.0.5 via a TCP Port
Task:
- implement the system of monitoring print jobs
Solution:
To solve this problem, we recommend that you install the agent on the print server only and enable the Server Side Monitoring mode. Create a virtual printer for the local printer and share access to it on the network, i.e. the virtual printer becomes a shared printer. After this step, add printers connected to this newly created shared printer \\192.168.0.2\SharedPrinter on workstation.
As a result, users sitting at workstations will actually print on the virtual printer that is a shared printer. The virtual printer will intercept the print jobs and redirect them to the local printer that will send them to the physical printer via TCP. Data will be intercepted only at the print server.
- At 192.168.0.5:
