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Streamserve 5.6.1 Vista Plus Ouptut Manager Integration. Karim El Cheikh Product Manager. Oct 2013. What Does VPOM Do?. Pain. Solution. Feature. Lost Jobs Distributed Environment High # of helpdesk calls. Ensure Delivery Central Control and Management
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Streamserve 5.6.1 Vista Plus Ouptut Manager Integration Karim El Cheikh Product Manager Oct 2013
What Does VPOM Do? Pain Solution Feature • LostJobs • DistributedEnvironment • High # ofhelpdeskcalls Ensure Delivery Central Control and Management Optimize Efficiency and Increase Productivity Track/Notification & Failover Enterprise Control Station Load-balance, notification, best device for job
Vista Plus Output ManagerMerge, Convert, Deliver, Route Convert/Merge PCL, Postscript etc PDF, HTML, Tiff etc PDF, HTML, Tiff etc Applications , i.e StreamServe VPOM Mail/Fax/Web Server Control and deliver your corporate information to printers and other destinations across the enterprise.
Output Manager High Level Features • Centralized Management of Jobs and Devices • Re-run, re-route, delete, hold • Tracking, Notification and Failover • Forms Management • Bursting and Bundling • Clustering • 1-to-many, 1-to-many by page • Interrogate and Apply Rules • Auditing for Chargeback and Trending
Example of Charge Back reports • The logputility pulls the qme.log information that can be used to get i.e. auditing statistics: • WHO Executed print job ‘ABC123’ • WHEN did this print job start • WHEN did this print job finish • HOW many successful records processed • HOW many failed
Output Manager Process VPOM WS WS notification WS branded to VPOM
StreamServe Job Submission • Create Webservice Profile
StreamServe Job Submission • Create VPOM connector
StreamServe Job Submission • Configure your Output Connector VPOM variables- Corresponds to theoptions provided by the VPOM server.
StreamServe Notification • Configure your Service Request Connector for receiving VPOM notifcations
Two New SXD to use in a MessageIN event for mapping all the notification variables <?xml version="1.0"?> <!-- StreamServe XML Dictionary Created: 2013-9-12, 17:00:00 --> <strsdictionary version="2.0" name="VPOMDeviceNotification"> <field id="NotificationSender" fieldlength="0" variable="NotificationSender" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="TopicNamespace" fieldlength="0" variable="TopicNamespace" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="TopicID" fieldlength="0" variable="TopicID" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="ChangeID" fieldlength="0" variable="ChangeID" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="ChangeName" fieldlength="0" variable="ChangeName" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="ChangeValue" fieldlength="0" variable="ChangeValue" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="ChangeOldValue" fieldlength="0" variable="ChangeOldValue" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceName" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceName" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceStatusDescription" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceStatusDescription" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceOwner" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceOwner" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceDescription" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceDescription" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="printerForms" fieldlength="0" variable="printerForms" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="hostName" fieldlength="0" variable="hostName" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="device" fieldlength="0" variable="device" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceClass" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceClass" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceProbeLanguage" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceProbeLanguage" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceProbeInterval" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceProbeInterval" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceStatus" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceStatus" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceProtocol" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceProtocol" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="devicePort" fieldlength="0" variable="devicePort" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceType" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceType" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceProbeEnable" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceProbeEnable" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceAlertLevel" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceAlertLevel" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceProbeReserve" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceProbeReserve" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceAccess" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceAccess" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="maxJobsRunning" fieldlength="0" variable="maxJobsRunning" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="jobsScheduled" fieldlength="0" variable="jobsScheduled" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> </strsdictionary>
Enabling VPOM Device Notification • Configure the notification setting for sending device state notifications
Delay StreamServe Top Job Completion • Job and Device Event based States sent from VPOM to the StreamServe Notification WS.
Key Benefits of using VPOM versus Output Center • Addtional device support: i.e. Content Server, Vista Plus, Email, Fax, AFP • Several Probing protocol support i.e. IPP, device native protocol, customized • Simplified WebUI • LDAP support SSO • Advanced and Tailored Worklow Management • Active-Active Cluster Support • No RDBMS / Database Vendor depency • Quick Setup • Burst and Bundle • SAP X-OMS certified • Follow-Me printing customized implementation
What’s New in VPOM 5.5 • New Operator User Type: intermediate between normal users and queue or device administrators. • New Region Display Option • Single Sign On (SSO) Support • Support for IPP Output Devices • Content Server Integration: new queue type and new commands to send files and metadata about them for capture to Content Server • StreamServe Integration:UsingOutput Manager’s new Web Service API.
What’s New in VPOM 5.5 • New Web Service API • Standardized Field Lengths standardized field lengths across all clientsso all clients can use the same API calls to the QDB • More Control Over the QWebDisplay by setting restrictions on the qweb.ini • Support for New Operating System Versions:RedHat Linux 6.3 and 6.4 • New Documents: • The Vista Plus Output Manager QWeb Client User Guide • Installing Vista Plus Output Manager
Karim El-Cheikh – Product Manager • kelcheik@opentext.com