Sites - Printix Administrator Manual

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Select Menu , Sites

About sites

Sites allows you to delegate the management of printers and print queues to the IT personnel at the local site. With the role as Site manager they can do their job without having excess permissions to change global settings and printing at other sites.

Site
- Concept of a site is based on networks.
- Multiple networks can belong to a site.
- A network can belong to one site.
- Printers (and thereby print queues) will belong to the site of their network.
Site manager group
- A group (in Microsoft Entra ID or Google) whose users will get the role as Site manager for the site(s) the group is added to in Printix.

See also:

What actions can a site manager perform

Panes

The page has these three panes:

Tree structure (left pane)
- Tree structure of folders and sites.
- Organize your sites in a flat structure or into a folder structure based on for example geography, like: Region, Country, City, …
- Maximum 4 levels deep.
Selected folder or Selected site (center pane)
Search results (right pane)
- Sites matching the current Search criteria.

Tree structure (left pane)

Folders and sites that are directly managed by the site manager are displayed in bold.

Select New folder to add a new folder.
Select a folder to open or close the folder and display information about the folder in the center pane.

Right-click the folder to open Folder menu:
- Select Folder name (Copenhagen) to rename the folder.
- Select Site manager groups to see and remove the associated Site manager groups.
- Select New folder to add a new folder.
- Select Create site to create site.
- Select Add site manager groups to add Site manager groups.
- Select Delete folder to delete folder.

Select Create site to create site.
Select a site to open the site in the center pane.

Right-click the site to open Site menu:
- Select Site name (Head Office) to rename the site.
- Select Site manager groups to see and remove the associated Site manager groups.
- Select Networks to see and remove networks associated to the site.
- Select Add site manager groups to add Site manager groups.
- Select Add networks to add networks.
- Select Delete site to delete site.

Selected folder (center pane)

Information about the selected folder.

Select Site manager groups to see the list of site manager groups currently assigned for the folder:
- Select More and Remove to remove a site manager group.

Select Folder setup to open the Folder menu:
- Select Folder name to rename the folder.
- Select Site manager groups to see and remove the associated Site manager groups.
- Select New folder to add a new folder.
- Select Create site to create site.
- Select Add site manager groups to add Site manager groups.
- Select Delete folder to delete folder.

Selected site (center pane)

Information about the selected site, including networks and printers.

Site information

Select Add network to open Add network menu:
- Select Add networks to add networks.
- Select Create new network to create a new network.

Select Site name (Head Office) to rename the site.

Select Site manager to see the list of Site manager groups for the site:
- Select More and Remove to remove a site manager group.

Select Site setup to open the Site menu:
- Select Site name to rename the site.
- Select Site manager groups to see and remove the associated Site manager groups.
- Select Networks to see and remove networks associated to the site.
- Select Add site manager groups to add Site manager groups.
- Select Add networks to add networks.
- Select Delete site to delete site.

Select Search to search for networks on the site.

Get started

The 4-step Get started wizard will guide you through the setup of the site.

1. Add network.
2. Add computer to network.
3. Discover printers.
4. Add site manager groups.

Networks added to the site

Select Network name (Head Office) to open and close network.

Select Add printer to add a printer.

Select Discover printers to add printers.

Select Network setup to open Network menu:
- Select Network name to rename the network.
- Select Settings to open Network settings dialog.
- Select Gateways to see list of Gateway IP and Gateway MAC addresses.
- Select Test network to test if communication to the networks’ gateways is working.
- Select Computers to see list of Computers that are on the network.
- Select Add printer to add a printer.
- Select Discover printers to add printers.
- Select Add gateway via computer and then select a computer that is on the network.

Select Search to search for printers on the network.

Printers on the network

Select ID (BNM) to open Printer settings dialog with Printer name, Model and Location.
Select Print queue (1) to open Print queues dialog with list of print queues and their settings.
Select Status (Error) to open Printer status dialog.
Select Printer name (Sales) to open Printer settings dialog with Printer name, Model and Location.
Select Printer address (192.168.1.49) to open Printer connection dialog with Printer address, MAC, Network and SNMP configuration.

Select Printer setup to open Printer menu:
- Select Settings to open Printer settings dialog with Printer name, Model and Location.
- Select Connection to open Printer connection dialog with Printer address, MAC, Network and SNMP configuration.
- Select Print queues dialog to open Print queues dialog with list of print queues and their settings.
- Select Status to open Printer status dialog.
- Select Delete to delete printer.