Question: What features are accessible from the top menu bar in HP Web Jetadmin?

Answer:

The top menu bar is always present and changes depending on the application view, presence of plug-ins, or the version of HP Web Jetadmin. This allows you to use functionality without having to change to a different view. Across the top menu bar are four choices:

• File: add new roles, users, templates (Discovery, Alerts, Data Collection, and Report), Groups (Device and Supplies), and Print queues. You can also pre-configure drivers or exit HP Web Jetadmin.
• View: customize interface settings based on the user’s credentials.
• Tools: manage global settings including
  • Device Discovery wizard: to locate network and PC-Connected devices
  • Application Log: you can view a log of all transactions that have occurred including the user, what the activity was and its details, and when it happened
  • Data Synchronization: synchronize data between multiple installations of HP Web Jetadmin.
  • Options: manage configuration settings for each view
• Help: provides online help for this product.

Question: What features are accessible from the left navigation menu in HP Web Jetadmin?

Answer:

HP Web Jetadmin has a navigation pane on the left side of the user interface that displays a tree for the current view:

• Device Management
  • Overview
  • All Devices
  • Groups
  • Discovery
  • Configuration
  • Alerts
  • Firmware
  • Reports
  • Supplies
  • Solutions
• Print Management
  • Overview
• Application Management
  • Overview
  • User Security
  • Product Update
  • Web Jetadmin Management

The tree breaks up the view’s functionality into organized parts. The Device Management view contains most of HP Web Jetadmin’s functionality and therefore has the most complex tree.

Many parts of the navigation tree have right-click functionality. An example of this is Discovery, where the Discover devices right-click menu item can be selected.

Other parts of the tree have drag-and-drop functionality enabled such as Device Groups. Devices can be selected in device lists within the workspace and dragged into Device Groups; the selected devices are added as group members. Many top-level nodes can invoke summary functionality in the workspace. By selecting a top-level node, such as Alerts, the workspace in the right-hand portion of the interface contains a summary of the Alerts features. The task modules that are specific to a feature (such as Alerts) will be displayed in the work space. The feature summary can be altered by selecting or deselecting the task modules that are important to you. We will cover more on this in the task module section.