Consolidating Printers and Remote Printer Monitoring
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@Dashrender said in Printer Leasing/Maintenance - Installing Software on the Network for Monitoring Print Devices:
@batman said in Printer Leasing/Maintenance - Installing Software on the Network for Monitoring Print Devices:
@wrx7m my experience is that the vendor doesn't "access" the locally installed software, it collects it and then posts it back home. Why would it be anything more than a glorified SNMP retrieval followed by sending out?
Sadly, they are not so benign. We had a vendor 10+ years ago want some software install, and did require a port opened for it, I passed on that and we kept manually providing page counts.
10+ years ago.. seriously man.. move on..
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I have always pushed for the accounting method that has an app installed inside my network to poll the printers and then that app sends the data to the company monitoring the usage.
I MUCH prefer pushing data out of my network over opening a pinhole for someone else's use. We don't block outbound traffic if the communication was originated on the inside, so no pinholes or NATing of inbound ports.
In MOST cases, they have an option to allow my preferred method of data transfer.
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@JaredBusch said
10+ years ago.. seriously man.. move on..
Sadly, said vendor is probably still using the same app.
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@BRRABill said in Printer Leasing/Maintenance - Installing Software on the Network for Monitoring Print Devices:
@JaredBusch said
10+ years ago.. seriously man.. move on..
Sadly, said vendor is probably still using the same app.
Yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath for the printer industry to suddenly catch up with modern best practices.
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@RojoLoco said in Printer Leasing/Maintenance - Installing Software on the Network for Monitoring Print Devices:
@BRRABill said in Printer Leasing/Maintenance - Installing Software on the Network for Monitoring Print Devices:
@JaredBusch said
10+ years ago.. seriously man.. move on..
Sadly, said vendor is probably still using the same app.
Yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath for the printer industry to suddenly catch up with modern best practices.
More of an issue with small town, small time one off hardware leasing companies.
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