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Surveillance Options (Effective only in Administrator mode)
Displays the [Surveillance Options] screen shown in the
right side when [Property] – [Surveillance Options] on the
[List View] screen are selected or when the icon in the task
tray is right-clicked, and [Property] – [Surveillance Options]
are selected.
Selects a method to monitor printers.
[List View]
Starts [List View] when the trap function receives error
information if the [List View] screen is not being
displayed.
[Printer Monitor]
Displays the [Printer Monitor] screen when the trap function receives error information.
[Sound]
Generates a sound according to the type of error when the trap function receives error information.
[E-Mail]
Sends email under a specified email condition when the trap function receives error information.
[Details]
Enabled when [E-Mail] is checked. Clicking [Details] displays the [Mail Property] screen.
‘Mail Property’
[Polling Surveillance]
Gets printer status using the Polling Surveillance function.
[List Information]
Enabled when [Polling Surveillance] is enabled.
Sets a polling interval for surveillance task (List View). (0 to 720 seconds, in units of 10 seconds)
When 0 is entered, [Polling Surveillance] is not performed.
Note: For each printer, 3 seconds is preferable for a polling interval to be entered in [List Information].
If there are printers, of which status is unknown, shown as [
: Unknown], an operation takes time to complete
surveillance. In this case, improve the printer status or remove the unknown printers from the Printer List.
[Printer Information]
Enabled when [Polling Surveillance] is enabled.
Sets a polling interval for updating Printer Monitor. (0 to 720 seconds, in units of 10 seconds)
When 0 is entered, [Polling Surveillance] is not performed.
[Trap Notification]
Monitors a trap notification from the printer.
Note: [List View], [Printer Monitor], [Sound], and [E-Mail] under [Notification method] become effective when [Trap
Notification] is checked.
Note: Under Windows 98/Me environment, the trap notification function set on the [Surveillance Options] screen is not
available. When the setting of the Windows XP SP2 firewall function has not been changed or commercially
available software with firewall function is installed, the trap notification function is not available. To enable [Trap
Notification], clear the block on trap notification.
‘Clearing the Block on Trap Notification (Windows XP Service Pack2)’
Supplemental explanation:
To enable [Trap Notification], make setting for the printer. By using the printer setting function of this Tool, make
setting for [Trap Notification].
Please refer to the section, ‘[Option] Tab – Setting for SNMP’ (Page 53) under [Option] tab of [Printer Setting].
‘[Option] Tab – Setting for SNMP’
[OK]
Exits enabling all settings.
[Cancel]
Exits without saving the current setting.