Creating a discovery profile

Use a discovery profile to find printers in your network and add them to the system. In a discovery profile, you can include or exclude a list or range of IP addresses or host names by doing either of the following:

• Adding entries one at a time

• Importing entries using a text file

You can also assign and enforce a configuration automatically to a compatible printer model. A configuration may contain printer settings, applications, licenses, firmware, and CA certificates that can be deployed to the printers.

1. From the Printers menu, click Discovery Profiles > Create.

2. From the General section, type a unique name and description for the discovery profile, and then configure the following:

   • Timeout—The duration the system waits for a printer to respond.

   • Retries—The number of times the system attempts to communicate with a printer.

   • Automatically manage discovered printers—Newly discovered printers are set to a Managed state automatically, and the New state is skipped during discovery.

3. From the Addresses section, do either of the following:

   Add the addresses

   1. Select Include or Exclude.

   2. Type the IP address, host name, subnet, or IP address range.

      Add only one entry at a time. Use the following formats for the addresses:

      • 10.195.10.1 (single IPv4 address)

      • myprinter.example.com (single host name)

      • 10.195.10.3-10.195.10.255 (IPv4 address range)

      • 10.195.*.* (wildcards)

      • 10.195.10.1/22 (IPv4 Classless Inter-Domain Routing or CIDR notation)

      • 2001:db8:0:0:0:0:2:1 (full IPv6 address)

      • 2001:db8::2:1 (collapsed IPv6 address)

      Note: If separate discovery profiles are created for the IPv6 address and the IPv4 address for the same printer, then the last discovered address is shown. For example, if a printer is discovered using IPv6, and is discovered again using IPv4, then only the IPv4 address is shown in the printer list.

   3. Click Add.

   Import the addresses

   1. Click Import.

   2. Select whether to include or exclude IP addresses during the discovery.

   3. Browse to the text file that contains a list of addresses. Each address entry must be placed on a separate line.

      Sample text file

      10.195.10.1
      myprinter.example.com
      10.195.10.3-10.195.10.255
      10.195.*.*
      10.195.10.1/22
      2001:db8:0:0:0:0:2:1
      2001:db8::2:1

   4. Click Import.

4. From the SNMP section, select Version 1, 2c or Version 3, and then set the access permissions.

   Note: To discover printers using SNMP version 3, create a user name and password in the printer Embedded Web Server, and then restart the printer. For more information, see the Embedded Web Server—Security Administrator's Guide for the printer.

5. If necessary, from the Assign Configurations section, associate a configuration to a printer model. For information on creating a configuration, see Creating a configuration.

6. Click Save Profile or Save and Run Profile.