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4. Check Enabled or Disabled to enable or disable printer discovery, as des ired. The auto
discovery mode will automatically adjust to your selection in a few seconds and your mode
choice will be remembered for subsequent xPrintServer startups.
Configuring Printers through Auto Discovery
Auto discovery of printers happens automatically each time you startup x PrintServer, so long as
auto discovery is enabled prior to the startup.
1. Make sure auto discovery is enabled (see Enabling or Disabling Discovery abo ve).
2. Startup and login to the xPrintServer user interface (see Logging In) as usual. T he Discovery
protocol runs one time automatically upon startup.
3. Click the Printer tab to access the Printers > List page. All printers which were auto
discovered at this startup will be listed here with “Auto Discovered” l isted under the Location
column.
4. Click the Discovery link to the left of the page to reach the Printer Di scovery page. A
Printer Auto Discovery Report will appear showing the current date and time the xPrintServer
automatically discovered and configured printers and associated download ed drivers.
Figure 4-3 Sample Printer Auto Discovery Report
Configuring Printers through Discovery
You may run Discovery anytime after xPrintServer is started up. Utilize these instructions to
discover and provision network printers connected after the xPrintSer ver last started up or
printers on other networks if their IP addresses have been added (see
Updating Printer IP Addresses).
1. Login to the xPrintServer user interface (see Logging In).
2. Click the Printer tab to access the Printers > List page.
3. Click the Discovery link to the left of the page to reach the Printer Di scovery page. A
message stating “Printer Auto Discovery has not yet been run” will appear if printers are
available for discovery. If new printers are not available for discover y, you will see a Printer
Auto Discovery Report (see Figure 4-3).
4. Click the Re-run Discovery button within the Printer Auto Discovery Report to manually
check for any new printers. After a few minutes, a new Printer Auto Discovery Repor t will