streamserve 5.6.1 vista plus ouptut manager integration

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Streamserve 5.6.1 Vista Plus Ouptut Manager IntegrationKarim El Cheikh Product Manager

Oct 2013

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What Does VPOM Do?

Lost Jobs

Distributed Environment

High # of helpdesk calls

PainEnsure Delivery

Central Control and Management

Optimize Efficiency and Increase Productivity

Track/Notification & Failover

Enterprise Control Station

Load-balance, notification, best device for job

Solution Feature

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Vista Plus Output ManagerMerge, Convert, Deliver, Route

VPOM Mail/Fax/Web ServerApplications , i.e StreamServe

Convert/Merge

PDF, HTML, Tiff etc

PCL, Postscript etc

PDF, HTML, Tiff etc

Control and deliver your corporate information to printers and other destinations across the enterprise.

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Output Manager High Level Features• Centralized Management of Jobs and

Devices– Re-run, re-route, delete, hold

• Tracking, Notification and Failover• Forms Management• Bursting and Bundling• Clustering

– 1-to-many, 1-to-many by page• Interrogate and Apply Rules• Auditing for Chargeback and Trending

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Example of Charge Back reports

The logp utility pulls the qme.log information that can be used to get i.e. auditing statistics:• WHO Executed print

job ‘ABC123’• WHEN did this print job

start• WHEN did this print job

finish• HOW many successful

records processed• HOW many failed

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Output Manager Process

VPOM WS

WS notification

WS branded to VPOM

StreamServe VPOM integration5.6.1 GA (earliest at KC July 1st)

5.6.1 Cum. Fix(Sept 27th )

VPOM 5.5 GA Release Date planned for End of October (LA available from End of September for Dev/Test)

• VPOM Multithreaded Job Submission

• WebService support

• Authentication

• VPOM Job and Device Status Notification WS based on Call Back interface

• Be able to delay Strs top job completion after delivery from output connector so that an outside system can set the job to completed

• WS Client for job and device notification to the StreamServe notification WS

• Device level Notification end points GUI.

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Job Status Change

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Device Status Change

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StreamServe Job Submission

Create Webservice Profile

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StreamServe Job Submission

Create VPOM connector

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StreamServe Job Submission

Configure your Output Connector VPOM variables- Corresponds to theoptions provided by the VPOM server.

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StreamServe Notification Configure your Service Request Connector for receiving VPOM notifcations

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Two New SXD to use in a MessageIN event for mapping all the notification variables

<?xml version="1.0"?><!--StreamServe XML DictionaryCreated: 2013-9-12, 17:00:00--><strsdictionary version="2.0" name="VPOMDeviceNotification"> <field id="NotificationSender" fieldlength="0" variable="NotificationSender" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="TopicNamespace" fieldlength="0" variable="TopicNamespace" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="TopicID" fieldlength="0" variable="TopicID" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="ChangeID" fieldlength="0" variable="ChangeID" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="ChangeName" fieldlength="0" variable="ChangeName" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="ChangeValue" fieldlength="0" variable="ChangeValue" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="ChangeOldValue" fieldlength="0" variable="ChangeOldValue" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceName" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceName" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceStatusDescription" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceStatusDescription" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceOwner" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceOwner" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceDescription" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceDescription" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="printerForms" fieldlength="0" variable="printerForms" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="hostName" fieldlength="0" variable="hostName" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="device" fieldlength="0" variable="device" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceClass" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceClass" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceProbeLanguage" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceProbeLanguage" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceProbeInterval" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceProbeInterval" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceStatus" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceStatus" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceProtocol" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceProtocol" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="devicePort" fieldlength="0" variable="devicePort" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceType" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceType" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceProbeEnable" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceProbeEnable" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceAlertLevel" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceAlertLevel" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceProbeReserve" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceProbeReserve" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="deviceAccess" fieldlength="0" variable="deviceAccess" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="maxJobsRunning" fieldlength="0" variable="maxJobsRunning" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> <field id="jobsScheduled" fieldlength="0" variable="jobsScheduled" type="Variable" alignment="Left" keepspaces="FALSE"/> </strsdictionary>

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Enabling VPOM Device Notification

Configure the notification setting for sending device state notifications

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Delay StreamServe Top Job Completion

Job and Device Event based States sent from VPOM to the StreamServe Notification WS.

JOBPENDING  JOBHELD  JOBRUNNING JOBSTOPPED  JOBCOMPLETE  JOBERRORCOMPLETE  JOBKILLED  JOBREQUEUE JOBCONTINUE JOBRESTART JOBORPHAN  JOBREMOVED JOBSPOOLING  JOBOFFLINE   JOBCORRUPT

DEVICEUP  DEVICEDOWN   DEVICERESERVED

Job state in Red are set to completed in the StreamServe queue since VPOM will not SEND more JOB state updates for the job

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Key Benefits of using VPOM versus Output Center Addtional device support: i.e. Content Server, Vista Plus, Email, Fax, AFP Several Probing protocol support i.e. IPP, device native protocol,

customized Simplified WebUI LDAP support SSO Advanced and Tailored Worklow Management Active-Active Cluster Support No RDBMS / Database Vendor depency Quick Setup Burst and Bundle SAP X-OMS certified Follow-Me printing customized implementation

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What’s New in VPOM 5.5

New Operator User Type: intermediate between normal users and queue or device administrators.

New Region Display Option Single Sign On (SSO) Support Support for IPP Output Devices Content Server Integration: new queue type and new

commands to send files and metadata about them for capture to Content Server

StreamServe Integration:Using Output Manager’s new Web Service API.

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What’s New in VPOM 5.5

New Web Service API Standardized Field Lengths standardized field lengths

across all clients so all clients can use the same API calls to the QDB

More Control Over the QWeb Display by setting restrictions on the qweb.ini

Support for New Operating System Versions:RedHat Linux 6.3 and 6.4

New Documents: The Vista Plus Output Manager QWeb Client User Guide Installing Vista Plus Output Manager

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Demo – Job Submission, Notifications & VPOM

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Thank you

Karim El-Cheikh – Product Manager

kelcheik@opentext.com