Xerox® Print Advisor Administration Guide 3
Contents
1 About Xerox
®
Print Advisor ...................................................................... 5
Print Advisor Architecture ................................................................................................................. 5
Xerox
®
Print Advisor Client .................................................................................................. 5
Xerox
®
Print Advisor Application Server ........................................................................ 5
Xerox
®
Print Advisor’s Impact on your Existing Print Environment ............................. 6
Xerox
®
Print Advisor Data Security .............................................................................................. 6
Xerox
®
Print Advisor Application Server Availability ........................................................... 7
Impact on Networks............................................................................................................................ 7
Ease of Installation .............................................................................................................................. 7
Administration Requirements ........................................................................................................ 7
2 Installing Xerox
®
Print Advisor ............................................................... 9
System Requirements ......................................................................................................................... 9
Supported Platforms ........................................................................................................................ 10
Using a Proxy Server ........................................................................................................................ 10
Using a Domain Service Account ............................................................................................... 10
3 Assessing Network Impact .................................................................... 11
Network Traffic Generated by Xerox
®
Print Advisor ........................................................ 11
Network Impact – Daily Print Volumes ...................................................................... 12
Putting Network Impact into Perspective ................................................................. 13
4 Planning Xerox
®
Print Advisor Deployment ................................... 15
Deployment Overview ..................................................................................................................... 15
Setting Your Assessment Goals ...................................................................................... 15
Understanding Your Corporate IT Environment .................................................... 15
Understanding How Your Print Infrastructure is Configured .......................... 16
Choosing your Deployment Options ........................................................................................ 16
Print Server-only Deployment ......................................................................................... 17
Installing Xerox
®
Print Advisor to Workstations only (Direct IP
Environments) ......................................................................................................................... 18
Workstation and Print Server Deployment ............................................................... 19
Installing Xerox
®
Print Advisor on Print Clusters .................................................... 20
Installing Xerox
®
Print Advisor on Citrix and Terminal Servers....................... 20
5 Xerox
®
Print Advisor Security ............................................................... 21
Xerox
®
Print Advisor Client Security ......................................................................................... 21
Xerox
®
Print Advisor Application Server Security ............................................................... 22
Authentication and Authorization ............................................................................................ 22
Port Requirements ............................................................................................................................ 23