Sending email to your zebra printer – Zebra Technologies PrintServer User Manual

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ZebraNet® Utilities

ZebraNet Alert

PrintServer II User and Reference Guide

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• If no DHCP server is present, you might need to assign the printer an IP

address.

3. To assign your printer an IP address, from the menu bar, select

Print

Server>Configuration

.

4. For PrintServer SNMP Traps, select the SNMP Traps tab.

5. Enter the trap destination and options.

This tells the PSII what TCP/IP address to send the alerts to, and under what
circumstances to send error and log reports. Entering 255.255.255.255 broadcasts
the message to every host on the network with a SNMP program running.

6. For ZebraNet Alert to go get and display the messages, you need to open ZebraNet

Alert. To do this, follow these steps:

• From the task bar, select

Start>Programs>ZebraNet Utilities>ZebraNet Alert

.

• In the ZebraNet Alert dialog, from menu bar, select

View>Filter Settings

.

• From the View Filter - Devices tab, choose your settings accordingly.

• The View Filter - Events tab, allows you to select individual events you want the

program to be aware of.

Sending Email to Your Zebra Printer

To easily transfer instructions and data to your printer from a remote location,

PSII

allows you to send email to the printer. This is set up under the link POP3 email
Printing. You need to provide the address of the network POP3 server, a user name,
and a password.

Important • The SNMP trap settings must be established to communicate with

PSII

if messages are sent to the ZebraNet Alert

Note • If you select No device filtering messages from every printer are caught;
Device Address allows you to specify which IP address data will come from.

Important • Now

PSII

’s SNMP Alert messages can be set up in WebView. From

the printer’s home page, activate the link to Alert Setup. You can add messages that
are sent to the ZebraNet Alert for Windows by choosing SNMP as a destination.

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