Case 6
Finally, we offer you to consider one more variant that draws a line under all the above. We offer you to try to make it out how monitoring print jobs is organized.
The most interesting computer is workstation 192.168.0.2 where the agent is running and two printers are connected. And one of them is connected to a shared printer that is a virtual one. Suppose the user of this workstation sends a job to Printer2. The agent installed on the workstation is running in the Client Side Monitoring mode. Therefore, the image will be intercepted and sent to the data center, while the job will follow its way to the virtual printer created on the print server. The agent installed there will intercept the image and sent it to the data center. As a result, information about printed documents will be doubled. However, it does not happen because virtual printers have higher priority. And if the agent on workstation 192.168.0.2 realizes that the document will be printed on a printer that is a virtual one, it does not intercept the image of the document clearing the way for the agent that is running on the print server. Thus, it is possible to avoid doubled information.
In this case, data will be collected in two places: on the print server and on workstation 192.168.0.2, moreover, the agent on the workstation will intercept only those documents that will be sent to the desktop printer Local Printer 2.
