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Xerox CentreWare Web - Effectively manage all<br/>output devices
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Xerox CentreWare Web gives you added productivity advantages you might not expect in device management. This innovative, web browser-based software tool installs, configures, manages, monitors, and reports on networked printers and multifunction devices in the enterprise - regardless of manufacturer… and it's free!
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Key Features

  • Features that improve productivity
    • Remotely configure printers and multifunction devices.
    • Manage many printers as if they were one with group-based management function.
    • Check device status throughout the enterprise.
    • Proactively monitor device status receiving alerts on printer status and problems, allowing everyday issues to be resolved before users experience down-time.
    • Troubleshoot problems.
  • Features to reduce costs
    • Track print usage by user and group to facilitate usage policies and ensure that devices are deployed to provide the best fit throughout the organisation.
  • Features to help ensure security
    • Centrally manage and administer critical device settings to ensure consistent and correct implementation of security policies and procedures.
IT administrators are faced with the challenge of continuously managing a diverse fleet of multi-vendor output devices, including discovery, tracking usage, monitoring status, updating software configurations, deploying driver updates, managing supplies, and reporting on the overall infrastructure. They need a comprehensive, easy-to-use tool that does all this and more.

Key Challenges

  • Increase productivity
    • Manage and report on all of the networked SNMP printers and multifunction devices across the entire enterprise – regardless of manufacturer.
    • Centralise printer set-up and enable system administrators to install, configure, and view the settings for all network protocols, simplifying the task of integrating devices.
    • Generate consistent information from databases and systems that is comprehensive, accurate, and easy to understand.
  • Reduce costs
    • Track printer usage and utilisation levels and optimise the deployment of assets.
    • Reduce service calls and increase the efficiency of output fleet management.
  • Ensure security by centrally managing security-critical device settings.
Xerox CentreWare Web provides the following key benefits:
  • Easy to deploy and administer.
  • Supports any SNMP compliant printers or multifunction devices, not just Xerox devices.
  • Simplifies device integration - install, configure and view settings for all network protocols, and set device defaults from a centralised location.
  • Configuration Sets - allow administrators to establish templates to define network protocol, scanning, job accounting and security settings across compatible Xerox devices.
  • Configuration Tasks – can be easily created, scheduled and applied to a set of devices which may be flexibly selected using a logical (Boolean) expression.
  • Manage HP devices – a variety of settings specific to Hewlett-Packard devices may be remotely managed via Configuration Sets and Tasks.
  • Cloning feature applies settings from one device to other like devices - a time and energy saver.
  • Reduces service calls and downtime through proactive response to alerts.
  • Provides accurate meter reads for charge-back by users or devices.
  • Retrieve and report – on print, copy, scan and server fax activity at the user level for Xerox multifunction printers that are network accounting-enabled.
  • Leverage the organisation's Active Directory – by choosing to map an existing object as the "Job Accounting account identification field." This quickly brings all users in as valid accounts, and can be automatically updated. Users can now import up to 10 Customer Active Directories.
  • Acts as a standalone solution or integrates seamlessly with existing software/hardware configurations.
  • Distinguishes fleets of output devices by placing into default or customised groups.
  • Group polling feature allows setting polling intervals and priority.

Why Choose Xerox?

  • Simplify your task with the clear leader in the output device management space.
  • Xerox continues to innovate in device management tools, driven by continuous feedback from customers ranging from Enterprise to SMB.
See which CentreWare Web features are supported on different Xerox products.
CentreWare Web 5.8 Feature Support Info/Matrix (PDF)

Xerox award-winning copiers, printers, and multifunction printers include flexible platforms that accommodate a wide variety of software solutions. Software functionality may vary by product model.

Multifunction

Printers Digital Presses Production Printers & Copiers

Hardware Requirements
  • Less than 400 discoverable devices: Intel® Pentium® 4 processor at 3GHz or Intel® Core™ 2 Duo. AMD equivalent processors are supported as well, 1 GB RAM
  • More than 400 discoverable devices: Intel® Pentium® 4 processor at 3GHz or Intel® Core™ 2 Duo. AMD equivalent processors are supported as well, 2 GB RAM
  • 3.0 GB free disk space (20 GB if collecting job/historical data from thousands of devices)
Client Requirements

Before installing CentreWare Web, you must first install the Microsoft 3.5.Net framework. Xerox CentreWare® Web was designed to be accessed by a browser running on client systems. Optimal performance can be achieved by using Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher. These browsers must be installed on the client before Xerox CentreWare® Web can be accessed.

Software Requirements
  • Windows Server 2003 SP2
  • Windows Server 2003 x64 SP2
  • Windows 7™ Professional
  • Windows 7™ Professional x64
  • Windows Server 2008
  • Windows Server 2008 x64
  • Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
  • Internet Information Services 6.0 or higher
  • TCP/IP enabled network
  • Databases supported: Microsoft SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2005 Express, 2008 Express
Database may be installed on the same system as CentreWare Web. A separate database server is recommended for any of the following configurations:
  • More than 20 groups configured for concurrent status polling
  • More than 20 alert profiles specified
  • Job data consumption is greater than 100,000 per week