Blueprint Print Center Secure Printers

The Secure > Secure Printers tab in the Pharos Print Center allows you to secure and manage several Pharos Sentry Print capable devices.

Note

The Secure tab is available on Blueprint 5.3 or later only.

Securing Devices

To successfully secure a device, you must ensure that the following conditions are met:

• The device exists in Blueprint Administrator ( Device Management > Devices screen).

• The device has the following details: Manufacturer, Model, and IP address.

• The Model of the device is supported. See the Supported Models list at https://www.pharos.com/products/supported-printers-mfds/ for Sentry Print-capable devices.

• The device has no associated Terminal (or if it has it's of type SE50).

• In Blueprint Administrator, for the “Standard Authentication Method”:

  • “User Logon” needs to be set to “Users can logon using a card or network ID and password”, and

  • “Registration” set to “Users can register with their network ID”

To secure devices:

1. Select one or more devices that you want to secure.

2. Click the Secure Printers button.

3. In the Secure Printersdialog box, configure the following:

   1. Select the desired Available Logon Types using the right arrow button. Remove Logon Types by selecting them and using the left arrow button.

   2. In the Hosting Server option, select the server desired as the secure printer’s host All available Blueprint servers (Analyst and Collector) will display in this list.

   3. Click Review advanced options if you want to set administrative credentials to be set for the printer.

4. Click the Secure button to initiate provisioning.

5. After a brief delay, the Status value of the printer will change to show progress (as a percent) with the tag “Processing…”.

The length of time it takes to secure a printer is dependent upon the manufacturer, as some printers require other activities to set device-based options, install other components, and possibly reboot to initialize and launch the newly-installed software. Once the device is secured, the Status will change to Secured and it can be used by employees to release awaiting jobs.

After Securing a Printer

• A terminal record (in Device Management > Terminals screen) is automatically created in Blueprint Administrator with the Terminal Type SE50 (1.0.0). The terminal name corresponds to the serial number of the device. If the device has no serial number, then it uses the hostname or IP address of the device as the Terminal Name.

• Authentication Method is set to Standard Authentication Method.

Note

If the authentication method should be something else, edit the Default Settings for the SE50 terminal type in the Secure Release Here group within Blueprint Administrator.

Updating Printer Credentials

Many modern print devices require Blueprint to supply a device’s admin credentials to be able to install the Sentry Print software on the device, or access protected parts of the device, like the card reader. In addition, organizations implement credential rotation, where the admin credentials for devices are changed on a regular basis. The device credentials file import provides a method to enable device admin credentials to be bulk loaded or updated into Blueprint.

There are two ways to update credentials in Blueprint:

• Using the Device Credentials file importer in Blueprint Administrator. For information on how to import printer credentials in bulk, refer to the Blueprint Administrator Help ( Importing Data > Importing Device Credentials).

• Using the Update Credentials button on the Print Center.

The Update Credentials button in Print Center enables administrators to update printer credentials without the need to perform a file import. It simplifies the process of updating a small number of devices, and it enables updating printer credentials without the need to re-secure the printer.

1. In the Secure > Secure Printers section of Print Center.

2. Choose one or more printers that you want to update.

Note

To update the credentials of multiple printers at the same time, it is necessary to choose printers from the same manufacturer.

Note

You cannot update credentials of devices that are tagged as "Not Securable" (meaning not Sentry Supported devices).

1. Click Update Credentials.

2. In the Set device username and password dialog, enter the new credentials for the printer selected printer(s).

3. Click Save. New credentials are automatically replicated to all Collectors.

For more information on Pharos Sentry Print, refer to the Pharos Sentry Print Deployment Guide in the Pharos Community.