Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a device management request from a remote management service. Examples include receipt of a device management from a remote management service through a firewall in a first device. The first device to provide the device management request to a second device via a local network and to receive a device management response from the second device. The first device to provide the device management response to the remote management service.

Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a device management request from a remote management service. Examples include receipt of a device management from a remote management service through a firewall in a first device. The first device to provide the device management request to a second device via a local network and to receive a device management response from the second device. The first device to provide the device management response to the remote management service.

Abstract: A single network appliance combines thin print server functionality with the functionality of network printer administration. The simple rack-mountable appliance has pre-installed software and acts as both a print server and print administrator on a network. The appliance performs as a typical thin print server, such as the Hewlett Packard JetDirect 4000 Print Appliance, and is accessed and managed from any remote computer running a web browser. As a thin print server, the appliance offers typical print spooling and queue functions. Using the single appliance as a print server instead of using a dedicated general purpose server or workstation, reduces the work load on system resources and increases printing performance on a network. In addition to providing thin print server functionality, the single appliance provides printer administration capabilities typically furnished by a general purpose network server installed with print administration software.

Abstract: Systems and methods of a load-balancing print server system are disclosed. A representative load-balancing print server system of the present invention includes a primary print server. The primary print server is configured receive printing request data corresponding to a printing request and determine if the primary print server is able to process the printing request data. The primary print server also is configured to communicatively couple with another print server and transmit print queue data to another print server. Additionally, the primary print server is configured to transmit secondary destination print data to the source of the primary request data indicating that the source is to transmit the information corresponding to the print task to another print server.

Abstract: A device management system and method for use with a computer network are provided. The method typically includes, in response to connection of the device to the network, sending a message from the device to the management application via a well-known communication channel, announcing the presence of the device on the network. The device may be preconfigured with an agent and a codelet pair, and the method may include sending the agent from the device to the management server. The method may also include setting a policy from the management application governing codelet operations on the device. The method may further include subscribing from the management application for notifications of codelet changes on the device.

Abstract: A single network appliance combines thin print server functionality with the functionality of network printer administration. The simple rack-mountable appliance has pre-installed software and acts as both a print server and print administrator on a network. The appliance performs as a typical thin print server, such as the Hewlett Packard JetDirect 4000 Print Appliance, and is accessed and managed from any remote computer running a web browser. As a thin print server, the appliance offers typical print spooling and queue functions. Using the single appliance as a print server instead of using a dedicated general purpose server or workstation, reduces the work load on system resources and increases printing performance on a network. In addition to providing thin print server functionality, the single appliance provides printer administration capabilities typically furnished by a general purpose network server installed with print administration software.

Abstract: The described system includes a web site that is used by a customer to determine a default device configuration that corresponds to one or more peripheral devices in the company intranet. The peripheral device is pre-configured to communicate a request for the default device configuration to the web site upon being booted up in the intranet. The request is formatted as a web page. The web site is not hosted by a server that is part of the intranet. In response to receiving the request from a booting up peripheral device, the web site is configured to communicate the default device configuration to the peripheral device as a web page. Upon receiving the web page including the default device configuration, the peripheral device parses the web page to determine the settings and/or control functions specified by the default device configuration. These settings and/or control functions are used by the peripheral device to configure itself.