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This pre-launch document has been prepared by Ricoh Europe B.V. and the contents are subject to change. Product names and codes have already been changed to reflect the NRG International Limited codes. Should you have any queries, you are advised to contact the Marketing Department at NRG International Limited, in Guernsey. NRG International Limited cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions that may be found in this document.
New Product Specifications & Key Product Enhancements Equitrac Office v4 & Equitrac Express v4,
FEATURE OVERVIEW.........................................................................22
4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4
PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE................................................................32
5.1 Core Accounting Server (CAS) ......................................................................................34 5.2 Document Routing Engine (DRE) ................................................................................36 5.3 Device Control Engine (DCE) .......................................................................................38 5.4 Device Monitoring Engine (DME)................................................................................39 Management tools......................................................................................................................39
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1 Introduction
This document describes Equitrac Office 4 (EO4) and Equitrac Express 4 (EE4), Equitracs document accounting solutions for the commercial, education and library markets. These two product solutions have two distinct target markets with distinctive and separate needs. Equitrac Office 4 is built specifically for the commercial and office market, providing intelligent print and copy management tools to reduce document output costs, enhance security, and increase the efficiency of existing output equipment. Equitrac Express 4 provides an integrated solution for education and library environments, adding support for flexible cost recovery and payment methods for all constituents in library and education environments. Both products are engineered on Equitracs advanced platform architecture, which enables the sharing of core features and functionality among multiple products, enhances the supportability those products, and reduces the training requirements.
DME Console displays all devices and allows you to sort them by name, server, fault status, etc.
Clicking on any device will provide a new window displaying the detailed properties and fault histories of that device.
USE CASE: Telecom Headquarters The huge fleet of devices at this company is distributed throughout their massive headquarters. They needed a print management system along with the lease of new MFPs, but are keeping many devices previously purchased y from another manufacturer. The network administrator was recruiting extra staff to help manage the number of network issues throughout the multi-building complex. With EO4, the network administrator used the DME to create notification rules to send messages to staff in other buildings when certain devices were low in paper or toner, or experiencing service problems. She also had notifications sent to herself for alerts which re-occurred at an unusual rate. Most importantly, she automatically receives a monthly report that shows the historical status of every device, which helps her plan for service or device retirement. These tools drastically reduce the time she spends managing the fleet, reduces her staffing requirements, and ultimately improves the productivity of the entire company by keeping all devices in working order.
Send To printing
The Send To printing facility enables a user to print a document for pickup by another user or group of users. With Follow-You printing, this provides a convenient mechanism for distributing documents such as bulletins or classroom materials to users spread geographically throughout an organization. Send-To also allows the sender to override or accept document costs when the job is distributed, ensuring that the recipient is spared any unwarranted charges.
USE CASE: Mid-size College A teacher enables the Send To client on her workstation to send weekly reading assignment to her students. The assignment is to be completed by the following weeks class. She has used the pop-up to create distribution lists for each class she teaches. Each week she sends the print job and assigns a Release Key to the job using the class date as a Release Key. She then sends the assignment to the distribution group, accepting all charges for the job. Students swipe their ID card at any PageCounter. When prompted for a Release Key they enter the date of the class and see the document waiting for them in the display. The student releases the job and the teachers account is billed for the print charges. This feature has saved the teacher from having to create hardcopies before class and distribute them during class time.
Print Server
When the Sender selects the Send To icon from the Tool Tray, a pop up appears and allows the Sender to specify distribution settings. The sender can create a distribution list of users authorized to retrieve the document, and choose charging options and job expiry before sending the document.
Print Server
Print Server
When the recipient authenticates at a release location, the document will be waiting in queue for retrieval.
Color quotas
To help organizations better manage access to color printing, a new color quota system allows IT managers to set allowable limits for color output on a per user basis.
USE CASE: Mid-size Company The company had been evaluating the replacement of their entire fleet of printers. While they were impressed by the high-speed MFPs demonstrated by their local copier dealer, they are very concerned about the costs that accompany color output. The dealer provided a trial of Equitrac Office and demonstrated how higher color quotas could be assigned to the marketing staff and senior management, while a more limited quota were provided to the staff in finance and administration. He showed them how they could schedule the replenishment of quotas on a monthly basis, and then how they could follow up on usage by running user reports that illustrate how much of the quota is being used by each individual. The company was so pleased with the level of control they could maintain over the use of color, that they went ahead and requested the dealer to replace their old devices with a new fleet of MFPs.
All users can now be given access to color enabled devices without the risk of excessive color usage, thus enabling the responsible use of color. This not only reduces output costs, but also eliminates the need to restrict some groups of users from accessing certain devices.
DME-based routing
By leveraging the capabilities of the new Device Monitoring Engine, the printing rules are now able to reroute documents based on device status, automatically avoiding devices that are unavailable or in an error state
USE CASE: Mid-size Company The company recently implemented EO4 to help improve user print workflow throughout the organization. By using the simple configuration tools in EO4 the administrator created redirect rules for every device, based on device status. This ensured that even when print jobs were sent to a device with a paper jam, that the job would be instantly rerouted to a similar device nearby. Additionally, EO4s improved user notification capabilities ensured that when a job was rerouted, the user was automatically sent a very accurate message including the date and time, users full name, where the job was sent, and why it was rerouted. With the new redirect and reprice rule, jobs which were routed to a printer with a different charging schedule than the selected printer were re-priced at the new cost and charges were tracked accordingly, resulting in very accurate cost tracking. The overall user workflow has substantially improved and the staff is much more satisfied with the information they are receiving about their jobs, and the reduction in print disruptions.
User notification
With enhanced notification capabilities, end users can be warned if their account balances are getting low. All end user notifications can also be customized.
The administrator can provide temporary PINs when the account is initialized, and send a customized email message to the user.
If a user has forgotten their PIN, they can just provide their login information in order to create a new PIN.
Department administration
With the new department administration security role, local administrators can be enabled to manage their own departments' users.
DME Reporting
As previously described in the Device Monitoring Engine overview, DME can not only provide current information on device status, paper and toner levels, and recent device failures, but also records this history to provide comprehensive reports for IT managers to track device performance and plan for such things as consumables inventories or device replacement.
Enhanced reporting:
Reports Manager incorporates usability enhancements, additional standard reports and increased customization capability.
Mobile DCE:
Mobile DCE is a portable application that allows a laptop to be used to upload PIN codes to PageCounter terminals not connected to a network, and to collect stored transaction data from them. This enables PageCounters to be used in buildings where network connectivity is impractical or not possible. PageCounters can be used in offline mode, but transaction data is still collected and then uploaded to the Equitrac accounting server.
On the main campus of a university is the schools first building, an architectural landmark with old masonry walls throughout. The construction of this building makes it impossible to supply network drops where necessary, leaving several stand-alone copiers unmanaged. News of free copies has spread throughout the student body, and soon these devices are experiencing excessive use. Now the university has implemented Equitrac Express and is using PageCounters at these devices. Although the terminals are offline, the students must still authenticate at the device and make copies as they would at a networked PageCounter, only instead of real time access to the accounting server, the transactions are stored in the PageCounter. Twice a week, a technician connects a laptop to the PageCounters, collects the stored transactions, and uploads new or changed PIN codes to the terminals. He then connects to the network and reconciles the transactions with the Equitrac accounting server. The administrator is now no longer limited by the networking limitations of the building and can offer identical payment workflow at every device on campus.
Equitrac Server
Print Server
Laptop running Mobile DCE collects data from offline PageCounters and uploads PIN codes to the terminals. Data is later uploaded and reconciled against the Equitrac accounting server.
Cashier enhancements:
The Cashier application has a new option to print a receipt after each deposit. The receipt can include date, balance, transaction amount, user name, time, cashier ID, cashier workstation name, and optional transaction comment. The receipt is generated from an HTML file which can be customized by the school to display the information as desired.
Additionally, the display of the Comment field in the Cashier application is now optional.
Currency display:
With the system currency format override it is now possible to use text such as pages or units in the cost preview pop-up, user account statements, PageCounter cost display, and the tool tray applet.
Currency settings can be changed to display transactions and account balances as pages or other currency formats.
Enterprise licensing:
Equitrac Office 4 is also available under an enterprise licensing scheme, where the license is only limited in terms of the number of network users, and an unlimited number of servers and server options can be deployed.
Upgrade licensing:
Every licensable option in Equitrac Office and Equitrac Express now has a corresponding upgrade license, including all server options and all client licenses.
EO4 EO4 EO4 SBE EO3 EO3 SBE PCSM 2.5 EE PCSM 2.5 SE EE4 EE4 SCE EE3 EE3 SCE PRS 2.6* X EO suite u/g EO suite u/g X EO suite u/g X X X X X X
EE4 EE suite u/g X EE suite u/g X EE suite u/g X X EE suite u/g EE suite u/g X EE suite u/g
EE4 SCE X EE SCE u/g X EE SCE u/g X EE SCE u/g X X X EE SCE u/g EE SCE u/g
3 Feature Overview
3.1 Product editions
Software Suite
Equitrac Express 4 Suite Equitrac Office 4 Suite Equitrac Express 4 Small Campus Edition Equitrac Office 4 Small Business Edition
Applications
Any size network with single or multiple accounting and/or print servers. Small deployments with a single print server, 10 or fewer printers, and fewer than 100 users.
3.2 Features
Features Document Output Management
Secure Document Release Follow-You printing PageCounter support 1 Embedded terminal support Release Station support Follow-You printing across print servers 2 Simple end user experience Low network bandwidth utilization Windows, UNIX, NetWare print server support
EO4 Standard
EE4 Standard
EO4 Optional
EE4 Optional
Rules-based Printing
Rules-based print job routing 3
Requires a PageCounter (purchased separately). Not available with SCE or SBE. 3 Requires the user of output devices with compatible drivers. * Please check the details which can be tracked and charged for
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Features
Rules-based print job limits Server-based print rules Workstation-based print rules Flexible rule sets with no need for scripting Extensive rule criteria available Device status-based job routing
EO4 Standard
EE4 Standard
EO4 Optional
EE4 Optional
Document Accounting
Print tracking at the print server Print tracking at the workstation Print tracking with embedded terminals Copy tracking with PageCounter terminals Copy tracking with embedded terminals Fax tracking with embedded terminals* Scan tracking with embedded terminals* Utilization tracking: Departments Flexible price lists Price lists assigned to multiple devices Pricing by device Pricing by page & print attributes Pricing by time of day and day of week Account-based pricing Department-based pricing Dual pricing capability Charge users, departments or billing codes Enforce limits based on color quota Devices, Users,
Features
Enforce limits based on account balance Out of funds user notification Funds low user notification
EO4 Standard
EE4 Standard
EO4 Optional
EE4 Optional
Device Management
SNMP-based device management Device status and availability tracking SNMP trap support Historical device availability tracking Time available, unavailable, offline Faults over time Rules-based alert triggers Notify be email or net message
Operating Environments
Support for Windows print servers 4 Windows Server 2003 certification 5 Support for NetWare print servers 6 Support for UNIX print servers AIX support (POWER2) HP-UX support (IA64) Linux support (x86) Solaris support (SPARC, x64)
May require purchase of appropriate client access licenses. Expected prior to Equitrac General Availability date. 6 May require purchase of appropriate client access licenses.
4 5
Features
Support for Mac OS X workstations Classic Mode support Windows and NetWare print servers 7 Support for enterprise databases Microsoft SQL Server support 8
EO4 Standard
EE4 Standard
EO4 Optional
EE4 Optional
Oracle support 9
Opt out on a per printer basis Desktop print tracking (Windows only) LPT, USB, Direct IP print tracking All printer types supported (using Windows print drivers) Print document to user or distribution list User-set expiry time for sent documents User-selectable payment method Document cost preview Print-time online (internal, native OS, or LDAP) Workstation-based print rules authentication
May require purchase of appropriate client access licenses. May require purchase of appropriate client access licenses. 9 May require purchase of appropriate client access licenses.
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Features
Document cost preview Print-time online (internal, native OS, or LDAP) authentication
EO4 Standard
EE4 Standard
EO4 Optional
EE4 Optional
Enterprise Scalability
Hardware scalability Windows cluster support 10 Multiprocessor support Dual core CPU support Network-centric architecture Multiple print server support 11 Server Uplink for global reporting 12 Low network bandwidth utilization Thin client architecture support Windows Terminal Services support Citrix Metaframe support
System Management
System Manager Remote management Configuration, licenses & devices Logical device grouping Task scheduling System diagnostics Comprehensive price list configuration Flexible decimal support (up to 4)
Not available with SCE or SBE. Not available with SCE or SBE. 12 Not available with SCE or SBE.
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Features
Display costs and balances in pages Intelligent defaults for configuration Add Equitrac Printer Port wizard Automatic printer model detection EQcmd command line tool
EO4 Standard
EE4 Standard
EO4 Optional
EE4 Optional
Accounts Management
Accounts Manager Remote management Users, departments & billing codes User import from domain or LDAP Automatic account creation Directory integration Native OS and LDAP Authentication 13 Active Directory synchronization 14 NDS synchronization Synchronization of PIN codes Synchronization of departments Synchronization of email addresses PIN code self-management for users Temporary PIN codes for new users PageCounter-based PIN management Web-based PIN management Web-based personal account statement15
May require purchase of appropriate client access licenses. May require purchase of appropriate client access licenses. 15 May require purchase of appropriate client access licenses.
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Features
Cashier application Receipt printing Payment at Release Station Multiple payment methods Deposit Station for self-server deposits Deposit kiosk support for self-server deposits Blackboard campus card connector CBord campus card connector
EO4 Standard
EE4 Standard
EO4 Optional
EE4 Optional
Reporting
Reports Manager Remote operation On-screen report preview Simple date range selection No database drivers required Print full report or page range Export to CSV, HTML, XML Scheduled reporting Comprehensive report selection Summary, detailed and total activity Account listings Device utilization Device availability & faults Report customization capability Select columns to display Specify custom column headers Specify report criteria
Features
Save as site or personal report Analysis Toolkit Database views for additional reporting
EO4 Standard
EE4 Standard
EO4 Optional
EE4 Optional
Features
Account limit enforcement
EO4
EE4
Value Proposition
Education customers use declining balances for the majority of users and need to set limits on document output. Strict enforcement of account limits in an office setting would be disruptive in the majority of businesses. Color quotas are available in both EO4 and EE4.
Departmental limits
account
It is often necessary to enforce account limits only for students in mixed environments. It is often necessary to provide differential pricing in mixed staff-student environments. Customers who do not wish to actually charge end users can use the set account balances task to implement time-based quotas. Education customers require self-serve account deposit capability to minimize staff overhead. Education customers require self-serve account deposit capability to minimize staff overhead. Education customers require the ability to offer a staffed deposit capability.
Organizations that base access to document output on credits or other similar units need the ability to display the same to end users. Education customers often need integration with pre-existing campus card systems such as Blackboard TIA or CBord Odyssey. At customer sites using value cards, Release Station can be used to accept payment using those cards.
Features
Account balance check
EO4
EE4
Value Proposition
Student users need the ability to check their account balances; EE4 provides this on Print Assistant, on personal web pages, and on the tool tray applet. In facilities where network connections are not available at the copier, EE4 enables the use of laptops to update PageCounters and to collect usage data.
4 Product Architecture
Equitrac Office 4 and Equitrac Express 4 represent the fourth generation of document accounting and security solutions for the general office and education markets. They are the second generation of products to be based on Equitracs Scalable Output Management Architecture (SOMA) platform. This platform will, by mid-2006, provide the basis for all the Equitrac serverside products.
Market
General Office
Application
All applications K-12 Higher Education Account-based payment Higher Education Libraries Card-based payment Print Tracking
Legacy
PAS 2.5 PAS 2.5 PAS 2.5 PRS 2.6 PRS 2.6 PAS 2.5 PCB PartnerJet PrintLog Pro System 4 PartnerServer
2004
Equitrac Office 3 Equitrac Office 3 Equitrac Office 3 PRS2.6 & PAS2.5
2005
Equitrac Office 3 Equitrac Express 3 Equitrac Express 3
2006
Equitrac Office 4 Equitrac Express 4 Equitrac Express 4
Education
Equitrac Express 3 PRS2.6 & PAS2.5 PAS 2.5 PCB PartnerJet EP 3.5 EPEE 4.6 Equitrac Print Tracking 4 EP 3.5 EPEE 4.6
Equitrac Express 4
PAS 2.5 = PCSM 2.5 PAS 2.5 PCB, Partner Jet, Print Log Pro, System 4, Partner Server, PRS 2.6, EP 3.5; 4.6, Equitrac Print Tracking 4 have all not been made available for Equitrac channel partners, but only for their direct sales. The business and support model for Equitrac Professional 5 will be looked at and discussed later between Ricoh and Equitrac K12 = part of education market in the U.S.A
Platform overview
The SOMA platform consists of the following separate server subsystems: Core Accounting Server (CAS) Document Routing Engine (DRE) Device Control Engine (DCE)
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Device Monitoring Engine (DME) These subsystems, as part of the scalable component-based overall architecture, enable new features and services to be more easily developed and incorporated together with the existing product functionality. This provides the ability for the product to adapt quickly with the growing market needs and reduce migration complexity in the future. This component-based architecture provides more flexibility to meet the needs of customers, from entry-level to full-scale, multi-site, systems, and it provides those customers the option to add to their systems as their environments continue to expand and mature.
CAS is implemented as a single Windows service, with a plug-in framework for additional modules. For example, it allows the system administrator to set up a master-slave accounting server hierarchy for enterprise-level scalability. The architecture also enables advanced features such as dual pricing for facilities management applications. Further, CAS also incorporates a licensing and software version management service as a plug-in module. This plug-in module performs the following functionality: Validates the software licenses for the various optional modules, and Records the installed software version for each licensed and unlicensed module. This centralized plug-in module provides more effective management and control of end-user licensing & software version control. This provides channel and alliance partners with additional tools to maximize effective licensing revenue and to scale the solutions to the customers needs. All essential configuration information is stored in commercially available databases SQL Express, SQL Server and Oracle providing the customers with the flexibility to use their existing database or provide the option to select the database product of their preference, instead of forcing them to a single supported database type.
The CAS architecture supports a server uplink connection to a master CAS server, both for aggregate reporting and for enterprise license management.
DRE performs the following functions: Transmit documents to printers and digital copiers Execute document rule sets (hold, release, delete) for print services Enable secure printing Identify document attributes and transmit to CAS DRE has no awareness of accounting, but instead communicates document characteristics to the accounting server for processing. In addition to print server tasks performed by the current generation of productsdata interpretation, printer communications, secure document release and Follow-You printing, the DRE architecture enables the creation of additional functionality through a plug-in module architecture. During configuration, system administrators can determine whether or not to allow printing when the accounting server is not available. If printing is allowed, authentication is based on the native OS only. The printing and user attributes will be cached locally on the print server and forwarded to the accounting server when it becomes available. This allows print services to continue even when the accounting server is offline. The print queue creation process on EO4 and EE4 is optimized for with automatic detection and recognition of major manufacturers output devices, but also allows the system administrators to configure and customize for an arbitrary third-party network card. When a printer model is selected, a Custom option is available for specifying LPR (and a queue name), IPP (and a queue name), direct-to-port (and a port number), or hold-port-open on a per device basis. For
key manufacturers, the configuration data built into EO4 and EE4 includes the default values for rated speed and monthly volume for each model. The DRE also executes document rule sets for printing. This provides additional administrative control over printing, allowing the system administrator to automatically enforce desirable printing behavior. For instance, large jobs can be automatically routed to a more economical device, and the user can be instantly notified as to where the document can be retrieved. This will not only help reduce the immediate cost of producing documents, but it will provide improved service to users, and help better utilize the existing equipment. Each named rule set may contain one or more simple criteria (e.g. job size > 10 pages), which can then be combined together using the and operator; each print rule set may be specified to release, hold, delete or redirect the job or/and send a message to the end-user. The print rule sets are stored in the accounting server database, and cached on the print server. Messages sent to users can be customized to include helpful information such as date, account balance, document cost, destination printer and user name. The types, criteria and actions for the rule set are as follows:
Attributes Group *A Pages *A Size *P Color *P, C Duplexing *P, C Title matches *P Device Status 16, *P, C Day of week *A Time of day range *A Account balance *P, C Color quota *P, C Application name 17, *D, P
Actions Deny *A Allow *A Hold *P Redirect18 ,*P Redirect & Reprice *P Send Message *D, P Warn *D, P
*A, C, P, and D denotes which attributes and actions are applicable to which rule type: All, Copy, Print, and Desktop print respectively.
Multiple DRE can be configured in a Windows cluster. This feature provides system administrators with uninterrupted print tracking and management capabilities. Cluster configuration is supported in Windows 2000 and 2003 server environments. The Windows cluster environment can be active-active or active-passive. Single or multiple active print queues can be configured amongst physical nodes, which are configured as the virtual server resources. This configuration increases server availability and allows resources to be shared amongst physical nodes.
When used with DME for status-based routing. When used with the Workstation Client. 18 The administrator must ensure that jobs are redirected to a printer with a compatible print driver. With the exception of finishing options, PCL and PostScript drivers, respectively, share a high level of driver fidelity.
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The accounts database has awareness of the users default or home server the print server that serves the devices to which the user prints by default. The home server value can be set manually by the system administrator or synchronized automatically with a field value from an extended Active Directory scheme. Upon user authentication, Equitrac Office checks the local server (that connects the target printer) and the users home server for securely held documents.
The notification can be sent as one or more of (1) a network pop-up message, (2) an email message, (3) a console message or (4) an event viewer message; in the case of email or pop-up messages, multiple recipients can be specified. The EO4/EE4 rules & routing capability utilizes DME to allow documents to be rerouted to another device should the original devices status have been in a fault state for longer than the specified maximum time.
Management tools
These server subsystems are managed by a comprehensive, consistent set of remote management tools, which present the system to both the network/system administrator and to the end users. Familiar icons are used, where appropriate, to guide the users to the right functionality. These management tools provide system management and configuration, accounts management, enterprise-level device management and reporting capabilities.
The user interface is divided into separate task-oriented tools. However, a flexible architecture enables a single application to manage all aspects of the system, by enabling all plug-ins in the same framework, should such a configuration be appropriate. Individual security roles control end user access to the management tools.
5 Documentation
In addition to the online help found in the product, Equitrac Office and Equitrac Express have a series of documents to assist in the planning and deployment of the products. All documents are provided in PDF format both on the product CD. The following subsections provide an overview of the documents provided with the Equitrac Office and Express products.
Installation Guide
This document provides the essential information to quickly install Equitrac Office and Equitrac Express. It walks the reader through the simple setup procedures to set up a functional basic product configuration.
Administrators Guide
This document is a comprehensive overview of the operation and configuration of Equitrac Express and Equitrac Office products. It provides detailed information about every functional area within the product.
6 Localization
6.1 Software
All of the Equitrac Office and Equitrac Express user and administration user interfaces are localized to English, French, Italian, German and Spanish (EFIGS). These user interfaces include System Manager, Accounts Manager, Device Console, Reports Manager, Deposit Station, Release Station, Queue Viewer and the tool tray applet. Client applications, notifications, and pop-ups are administrator-configurable, and can generally be reconfigured to local languages, whether EFIGS or otherwise.
6.2 Documentation
The Equitrac Office and Equitrac Express Installation Guides, as described in the previous section, are provided in five languages (EFIGS). However, the more extensive Administrator Guide and supplementary guides, are provided in English only. The following subsections provide an overview of the documents provided with the products.
7 System Requirements
7.1 Operating system and hardware requirements
The following table outlines the base level of OS environments and hardware platform on top of which Equitrac Office and Equitrac Express and their components operate. The operating environments, though, must be supported by the OS and hardware vendors. It is important to note that EO4 and EE4 no longer support Windows NT, Windows 98/Me or Mac OS 9 operating systems. Support for NetWare queue-based printing is also no longer available.
Server Components CAS: Core Accounting Server Software Platforms 19 Windows Server Windows 2000 Server 2003 Minimum Hardware Platform 20 Intel Pentium 3 or AMD Athlon CPU; 512 MB of system memory; 1 GB of available disk space
CAS: Core Accounting Server Database Core Accounting Server (CAS) Cluster server Server Components Print Server (DRE)
DRE: Device Routing Engine Cluster Server DCE: Device Control Engine DME: Engine Device Monitoring
MSDE 2000 SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2005 Express Oracle 9, 10g Windows 2003 cluster Windows 2000 cluster Software Platforms Windows Server 2003 Windows 2000 Server NetWare 5.1 SP7, 6.0 SP4, 6.5 SP1a AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 HP-UX IA64 11i Red Hat Enterprise 3, 4 Red Hat Fedora Core 3, 4, 5 Solaris SPARC 8, 6, 10, X64 10 SuSE Linux Server 9, Enterprise 8, 9 Windows 2003 cluster Windows 2000 cluster Windows Server Windows 2000 Server Windows Server Windows 2000 Server 2003 2003
Minimum Hardware Platform Intel Pentium 3 or AMD Athlon CPU; 512 MB of system memory; 200 MB of available disk space 21 22
Software Platforms Windows Server 2003 Windows 2000 Server Windows XP Professional Windows 2000 Professional
Intel Pentium 3 or AMD Athlon CPU; 1 GB of system memory; 200 MB of available disk space Intel Pentium 3 or AMD Athlon CPU 512 MB of system memory 200 MB of available disk space Intel Pentium 3 or AMD Athlon CPU 512 MB of system memory 1 GB of available disk space Minimum Hardware Platform Intel Pentium 3 or AMD Athlon CPU; 256 MB of system memory; 50 MB of available disk space; 1024x768 display resolution
Client Tools
Software Platforms
19 Customer 20
is responsible for securing Client Access Licenses (CALs) as required. This column indicates minimum hardware requirements only; high printing/transaction volumes and/or large installations may require substantially higher-performance hardware. 21 Additional space required for print job spooling. 22 Additional resources may be required by the specific software platform.
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Windows 2000 Terminal Server Windows 2003 Terminal Server Windows XP Professional Windows 2000 Professional Citrix XP Server Citrix 2000 Server Mac OS 10.2+
Server Components
CAS: Core Accounting Server CAS: Core Database Accounting Server
Discontinued Platforms
Windows NT 4.0 Server SQL Oracle 8 Server 7
Server Components
DRE: Device Routing Engine
Discontinued Platforms
Windows NetWare 5.x, AIX HP-UX Solaris 7 NT 4.0 Server 6.x (queue-based printing only) 4.x (PA-RISC)
Management Tools
System Accounts Reports Manager Manager Manager
Discontinued Platforms
Windows NT Windows NT 4.0 Workstation 4.0 Server
Client Tools
Print Workstation Client Assistant
Discontinued Platforms
Windows Windows Windows Mac OS 9 NT 4.0 Workstation Me 98
After the evaluation period ends, demonstration and trial systems will revert to the unlicensed state. Existing customer feature trials will revert to the Activated state, but unlicensed features may stop operating because of the end of the evaluation period.
8.2.4 Upgrades
Equitrac Office and Equitrac Express require new licensing activation; you cant use legacy registrations or software licenses to activate the products. Upgrade license activation additionally requires the entry of a qualifying legacy serial number for each upgrade license.
Feature Element
Accounting server (CAS) Print server (DRE) Cluster Enabler Workstation Client Print Assistant Release Station Embedded terminal External Data Connector
License Metric
Per server Per server + number of server-based printers Per cluster Per workstation Per workstation Per workstation Per MFP Per external application/device/server
SBE limits the number of supported devices to 10. The 10 devices can be any combination of print server printers, PageCounter-controlled devices or embedded terminals.
The core enterprise license includes unlimited server functionality for the licensed number of users. Workstation and embedded functionality is not part of the core enterprise license. Specifically, the following licenses are included: Unlimited accounting servers (EO4 Suite) Unlimited print servers Unlimited printers Unlimited DME and DCE Unlimited cluster enablers Unlimited external data connectors Unlimited release stations Note that a single electronic license code will be provided with an enterprise license, and the license assignments will be allocated from a single CAS (either in a single-CAS scenario, or as a master CAS in an uplink configuration).
The enhanced enterprise license includes unlimited server and workstation functionality for the licensed number of users. Embedded functionality is not part of the core enterprise license. Specifically, the following licenses are included: Unlimited accounting servers (EO4 Suite) Unlimited print servers Unlimited printers Unlimited DME and DCE Unlimited cluster enablers Unlimited external data connectors Unlimited release stations Unlimited print assistants Unlimited workstation clients Note that a single electronic license code will be provided with an enterprise license, and the license assignments will be allocated from a single CAS (either in a single-CAS scenario, or as a master CAS in an uplink configuration).