HP Web Jetadmin software

What's new?

New features across the five categories of best-practive, proactive fleet-management include: » Fleet deployment » Problem resolution » Proactive management » Security » Reporting & optimization

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Fleet deployment

• Dramatically improved Windows®-based user interface, with drag-and-drop and right-click capabilities, plus task-based wizards
  
  
• Automated Active Directory integration including auto grouping of devices based on ADS groups and ability to add printer objects to Active Directory as part of print queue creation
  
  
• Additional user interface customization based on user role so the user sees only what they need; configure and save the default view to be associated with a specific user or group
  
  
• Significant performance improvements including the native integration of PC-connected device discovery
  
  
• .NET integration, UPD integration and Microsoft® Vista® support
  
  

Problem resolution

• Unlimited customizable fields that can be user-defined, associated with alerts and used for reports
  
  
• Searchable help functionality
  
  
• Additional discovery analysis tools including detailed feedback
  
  
• Multiple devices visible on the interactive display at one time
  
  

Proactive management

• Ability to define policies for non-responsive devices; filter to view only certain types of devices such as color only
  
  
• Proactive alerts for device communication failures
  
  
• Policy-based auto group functionality and the ability to export data cache
  
  
• Additional supplies alerting and reordering capabilities including new proactive alerts and predictive reports
  
  
• Tools to help migrate settings and configurations from HP Web Jetadmin 7.8, 8.0 and 8.1, as well as backup scripts
  
  

Security

• Single sign-on with native user authentication using Microsoft permissions
  
  
• Consolidated security settings in one configuration tree
  
  
• IPsec support to configure an IPsec policy and apply to selected HP Jetdirect devices
  
  

Reporting & optimization

• Simplified data collection and report generation
  
  
• Increased flexibility to generate, schedule and store customized reports
  
  
• Improved performance through native integration of report generation