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- Page 1 Canon imageRUNNER Knowledge Module for PATROL User’s Guide...
- Page 2 Copyright © 2000, 2002 by Canon Development Americas, Inc. All rights reserved. This manual may not be reproduced in any form, in whole or part, without the prior written consent of Canon Development Americas, Inc. Trademark Acknowledgments BMC Software is a trademark and PATROL is a registered trademark of BMC Software, Inc.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Supported Network Protocols... 2 • About This Guide... 2 ❏ System Requirements ... 4 ❏ Before You Begin Installing Canon KM ... 4 ❏ Installing the Canon KM Software ... 5 • Uninstalling Canon KM ... 6 ❏ Monitoring Your Printer Status... 7 •... -
Page 4: Introduction
Introduction The Canon imageRUNNER Knowledge Module (also referred to in this guide as Canon KM) is a management tool that fits within PATROL by BMC Software, enabling you to monitor your Canon network printers and standard MIB (non-Canon) devices. Supported Canon Printers... -
Page 5: Conventions Used In This Guide
Text in quotation marks Click, double-click Monospaced text Capitalization Canon imageRUNNER Knowledge Module for PATROL 3 Used to stress the importance of a word or phrase, or to refer to the title of another guide. For example: You cannot access the dialog box... -
Page 6: System Requirements
• Internet Explorer version 5.0 or later. Before You Begin Installing Canon KM To help ensure a successful installation of Canon KM, prepare your system environment. ❏ Make sure PATROL (Agent and Console components) is properly installed on your systems, including the setup of any required information (such as user account and password). -
Page 7: Installing The Canon Km Software
❏ Verify the folder in which PATROL is installed. Canon KM must be installed on each system with PATROL Agent or Console. Although the system should detect the appropriate folder automatically when you install Canon KM, you need to make certain that Canon KM is installed in the same folder as PATROL. -
Page 8: Uninstalling Canon Km
Desktop tab. For details, see the “Monitoring Your Printer Status” section. Uninstalling Canon KM If you need to remove the Canon KM software at some time, you must unload the Canon printer knowledge module from PATROL first. To unload the Canon printer knowledge module: 1. -
Page 9: Monitoring Your Printer Status
PATROL Operator Console to view and monitor the status of your Canon printer. Using a tree structure, the Desktop tab displays the available Canon printer classes and the respective printers for each class. Canon Printer... -
Page 10: Performing Printer Tasks
System Output Window, if advised by Technical Support to troubleshoot a problem. To display the copyright and version for Canon KM: On the Desktop tab, right-click the specific printer. Click KM Commands, and then click About. -
Page 11: Defining Discovery Settings
Defining Discovery Settings The Discovery application, available with the installation of Canon KM on a system with PATROL Agent, enables you to define how and how often to discover Canon printers newly added to your network environment. - Page 12 2. In the Discovery Settings dialog box, under Search Preferences, select how you want to discover newly added Canon printers. 3. If you selected Ping SNMP, under Enter IP Address range, specify the range of IP addresses to ping. 4. To set the discovery process to run automatically, based on your defined settings, click Auto Discovery.
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Page 13: Specifying The Search Preference
❏ A local network that responds to broadcast messages ❏ Routers or a series of routers (hops) that block broadcast messages, IP addresses that have different subnet masks, or Canon printers that are too far away to respond to a broadcast in time. -
Page 14: Specifying Ip Addresses To Ping
This feature is beneficial whether or not your network environment includes Novell NetWare. Note: The use of this feature is designed as optional since other Canon network products may have different discovery operation requirements. 12 Canon imageRUNNER Knowledge Module for PATROL... -
Page 15: Discovering Non-Canon Devices
MIB devices not manufactured by Canon. Specify your choice based on whether you want to broaden the discovery process beyond Canon devices, or to focus the discovery on only Canon devices. Managing a Maximum Number of Devices To further refine the discovery process, you specify the maximum number of devices you want to manage. -
Page 16: Appendix: Technical Notes
As such, these parameters display no status of their own. Parameter COLL_Printer COLLTray ExtraFilesList 14 Canon imageRUNNER Knowledge Module for PATROL Description Collects status for all other status tokens. Collects Canon imageRUNNER paper tray data. Lists extra files to commit to Agent along... -
Page 17: Index
About Canon KM display copyright and version 8 Broadcast SNMP defining Discovery settings 11 Canon printer knowledge module loading 5 conventions used in this guide 3 debug messages enable display of 9 devices supported 2 Discovery defining settings 9 installation... - Page 18 system requirements described 4 test page print 8 uninstall procedures 6 Index...