Printer Search Schedule Help

The Printer Search Schedule page contains various settings that allow you to select how and when printer searches are performed on the printer. You can set the printer to automatically perform periodic printer searches, perform background printer searches, or only perform printer searches when you initiate them by clicking the Update Status button from the Status tab or the Manage tab.

Select the type of search you want the printer to perform from the Search Type section. Options include:

Selecting this option disables the Scheduled Search settings.
Selecting this option disables the Automatic Cache Settings section.
This option instructs the printer to perform a printer search only when an authorized user clicks the Update Status button from either the Status tab or the Manage tab.

Selecting this option disables the User Initiated Search fields.
This option instructs the printer to perform a printer search a specific intervals as determined in the Scheduled Search settings fields.
- The current date and time default in the Current Date and Time field.
- Enter an integer value for Search Frequency. This value cannot be less than 1.
- Select the interval unit for Search Frequency from the drop-down box. Hour(s), Day(s), Week(s), or Month(s).
- Select valid values for the Start Search Date fields from the pull-down menus. Day values can be between 1 and 31. Month values can be between January and December, inclusive. Select the year value from the drop-down menu. All valid values display.
- Enter valid values for hours and minutes for Start Search Time from the drop-down menus. Values are between 12:00 am through 11:59 pm.
Automatic Cache Settings are enabled.

Click the Auto Search on Reboot checkbox to direct the printer to perform an automatic printer search whenever the printer reboots. If the checkbox is blank, the printer will not perform a printer search upon reboot. By default this checkbox is blank.

Note: The Auto Search on Reboot checkbox displays on this page on non-extended printer configurations only. On extended printer configurations, this checkbox displays on the Printer Search Schedule page.

Set Automatic Cache Settings to manage printer cache and remove printers that no longer respond to the status or discovery query. If you select a value greater than 0, the printer cache will be cleaned out at those specified intervals. You cannot select a value less than 4 hours. Select 0 to set the cache to continuously delete non-responding printers so that they never display.

To remove printers that are not responding immediately, click the Remove Non-Responding Printers Now button.

Note: These functions are only supported in the extended printer configuration. Access to the Preferences tab functions is controlled by the Administrator. You may require a user name and password to access these functions. Refer to the Administrator Security Settings page in CentreWare IS.