Understanding software clients and software client groups

There are two types of client software:

• Select'N'Send—This is a Windows application, including both a command line utility and a GUI version, that allows users to send files directly to Lexmark Distributed Intelligent Capture and select Lexmark Distributed Intelligent Capture profiles to use in processing the sent files. Selected files are submitted to the system in their current formats.

  Note: Select'N'Send does not support prompting from an Lexmark Distributed Intelligent Capture server system profile.

• Lexmark Document Server Printer Port—This is a port monitor that allows users to submit documents to Lexmark Distributed Intelligent Capture by printing from any Windows application to a print queue assigned to the port. Printed documents are submitted to the system in the format determined by the print driver used with the print queue.

  A Lexmark Distributed Intelligent Capture printer port can now be assigned to an Lexmark Distributed Intelligent Capture server system profile that prompts for user input at the time of printing. The prompting is controlled by the profile or script running on the Lexmark Distributed Intelligent Capture server system that the printer port is assigned to. For Lexmark Distributed Intelligent Capture printer port prompting, the port monitor software must be installed on the computer. The Lexmark Distributed Intelligent Capture printer port must be created and assigned to a profile that prompts to an existing print queue.

  Notes:

  • Lexmark Distributed Intelligent Capture printer port prompting is not supported on print servers. Do not configure a Lexmark Distributed Intelligent Capture port on a print server to use a profile that prompts; otherwise, the spooler will stop responding and possibly crash when print jobs start going into the print server. You can still use Lexmark Distributed Intelligent Capture ports on print servers, but you can only assign them to profiles that do not prompt
  • Configure the nonprompting profiles in the SDK with a property in the SDK that specifies that the profile does not prompt. This helps improve the performance of an Lexmark Distributed Intelligent Capture port assigned to a nonprompting profile.

A software client is a computer that has been configured to use Select'N'Send or a Lexmark Document Server Printer Port to access solutions directly. A software client group is a collection of these software clients that share one or more solutions with the same local configuration. At least one software client group must be created for solutions used with Select'N'Send or Lexmark Document Server Printer Ports. Multiple software client groups should be created if more than one solution is assigned to different sets of software clients or if one solution is assigned to different software clients with different local configurations.

Software clients can be members of more than one software client group. Solutions from each software client group to which a software client belongs will be available to that software client.

Although software client groups are similar to device groups, there are a few differences:

• Only solutions developed specifically for use with software clients may be made available to software clients.

• Software clients are not discovered. Adding a software client to a software client group simply enables access to the solutions in that group when the software client accesses the system.

• Similarly, policy updates are not used with software clients.

• Lexmark Document Server Printer Port supports dynamic prompting.

• The Solution Status Page cannot be associated with a software client group.