Network Printer Fleet Management, Monitoring, and Reporting
Dell Management Console powered by Altiris from Symantec delivers a single view into the deployment, inventory, monitoring, and update of your IT infrastructure as well as a foundation for more advanced management functionality.
Dell Management Console will discover, inventory, and monitor printers through the same console you can use to manage your entire as the rest of your IT infrastructure - saving you time and money.
Dell OpenManageTM Printer Manager is an easy-to-use network utility that provides a flexible and efficient means to manage, monitor and generate reports for Dell and selected non-Dell printers. This free of charge utility includes a highly customizable management console, a third-party printer extension support mechanism and flexible reporting capabilities to help Local Area Network (LAN) administrators understand their printer ecosystem and utilization. This helps result in increased end-user productivity and enhanced printer network control.
Features and Functionality Manage
- One-to-many printer management feature
- Client - Server Application, accessible through client application or web browser
- Consolidate consumables management between locations and printer models
- Group printers together based on your environment or management needs
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Monitor
- Printer Discovery Wizard
- Customizable, real-time view of selectable printer status information with color coding based on almost any printer attribute to highlight the status of your printer fleet and consumables usage
- Comprehensive listing of events and alerts, combing device events (SNMP Traps) as well as internally generated events (thresholds, field and printer identification changes)
- Searchable, filterable database captures audit logs that track all events, alerts, and changes to every printer
- Automatic notification of new printer firmware versions available on dell.com
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Report
- Report Manager with common report templates including Consumable Forecasting and Inventory Management
- Custom reporting capability
- Service issues tracking
- Report formats include PDF, HTML, and CSV file types
- Monthly print volume reports by printer
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Support
- Toll-free telephone technical support (English only) on OMPM for existing Dell hardware customers (1-888-603-4491)
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Resources IMPORTANT: The OMPM application is not for SOHO and small-businesses (or a site with less than 50 network printers).
Note: All user data is retained when a user upgrades from OMPM 1.1.
Please provide comments and feedback to us at OMPM_Feedback@Dell.com
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