InfoPrint Manager interfaces

The main InfoPrint Manager interfaces are the InfoPrint Manager Administration GUI, InfoPrint Manager Operations GUI, the InfoPrint Manager Web Administration Interface, and InfoPrint Manager Web Management Interface, collectively known as the InfoPrint Manager GUIs. To administer your InfoPrint Manager environment, you primarily use the InfoPrint Manager Administration GUI or the Web Administration Interface. The InfoPrint Manager Web Administration Interface includes all functions (administration and operation) available in the InfoPrint Manager Administration GUI. You can use this Java-based interface to create, delete, or modify most InfoPrint Manager objects. Printer creation wizards make it easy for you to create InfoPrint Manager actual destinations.

To oversee the day-to-day operation of your InfoPrint Manager environment, use the InfoPrint Manager Operations GUI. This interface includes a subset of the functions available in the InfoPrint Manager Administration GUI. In the InfoPrint Manager Operations GUI, you can release jobs for printing and disable actual destinations. You cannot, however, modify the fundamental configuration of the InfoPrint Manager environment; you cannot delete or add logical destinations, for example.

The InfoPrint Manager Web Administration Interface supports the same security features as the InfoPrint Administration and Operations GUIs and any existing FST security settings apply to the Web Administration Interface as well. However, the read operations taken to display the objects in the InfoPrint Manager Web Administration Interface web application are carried out by a special user wsClient. This user must be a member of the WebServices group. The WebServices group needs read access for the List/Query (pdls) operations on each InfoPrint Manager system the InfoPrint Manager Web Administration Interface connects to. Any other operations are carried out with the specific user@hostname user connecting to the web application. For more information about the FST security, see RICOH InfoPrint Manager for Windows: Procedures.

The InfoPrint Manager Web Management Interface lets you do some of the administrative tasks on the server. You can use the InfoPrint Manager Web Management Interface to configure and administer your print environment. InfoPrint Manager Web Management Interface supports various tasks, such as enabling the LDAP security, configuring federated authentication, or managing the Web Server, the Web Administration Interface, or the Pull Print environment.

All the InfoPrint Manager GUIs are installed on the Windows system that the InfoPrint Manager server is installed on. In addition, they can all be installed on remote systems. As a result, administrators and operators can manage the InfoPrint Manager system without going to the Windows system that InfoPrint Manager is installed on.

Note: Mixing different levels of the interfaces, servers, or both might cause unexpected results with the Printer Details. Keep all the clients and servers in the same namespace at the same level.

The InfoPrint Manager Web Administration Interface is installed on the Windows system that the InfoPrint Manager server is installed on. You can access the InfoPrint Manager Web Administration Interface from other machines through a Web browser.

The third interface that you use for some administrative tasks is the InfoPrint Manager Management Console.

Important: If the User Account Control (UAC) is turned on, you can do the following tasks using the InfoPrint Manager Management Console only when using the "Run as Administrator" option. To do this, right-click the application icon and select "Run as Administrator".
These tasks include:
  • Stopping and restarting the InfoPrint Manager server
  • Submitting test jobs
  • Managing DPF host receivers
  • Managing MVS Download receivers
  • Viewing and deleting resources in the DPF Resource Database
  • Managing security
  • Managing federated authentication
  • Managing server configuration
  • Viewing server and destination logs
  • Controlling tracing
  • Configuring the PullPrint application

The InfoPrint Manager Management Console only runs on the Windows system where the InfoPrint Manager server is installed. To be able to use the InfoPrint Manager Management Console on a remote system, you must use the built-in Terminal Server capabilities and install the InfoPrint Manager server on one of its supported systems. See Server software prerequisites for more information.

Parent topic: Introducing InfoPrint Manager for Windows