SyncThru 5.0 Guide (ver.5.2.1.2924)

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Features of SyncThru™ Admin 5
Main features
Additional Plug-in features
What’s improved?
SyncThru™ Admin 5 has improved features from SyncThru Web Admin Service 4.x.
New features
FEATURE DESCRIPTION
Dashboard Dashboard works as both short-cuts and favorites. You can add items you need into
the Dashboard and access them easily (See "Dashboard" on page 23).
Analysis and Report SyncThru™ Admin 5 provides reporting capabilities for devices. You can create,
display and send reports on statuses, usage, alerts, consumables, assets, and
accounting information (See "Analysis & Reports" on page 61).
Device Configuration SyncThru™ Admin 5 provides the ability to configure the device’s settings with SNMP
protocol (See "Configuration overview" on page 41).
Firmware Upgrade SyncThru™ Admin 5 provides the functionality of remotely updating the firmware on
Samsung devices (See "Firmware overview" on page 54).
File Storage Management SyncThru™Admin 5 provides the ability to manage files like fonts, forms, and macros in
the devices with File Storage function (See "File Storage overview" on page 57).
Alert Management SyncThru™ Admin 5 provides alert functionality. You can change the options for alerts
(See "Alerts" on page 77, "Alert Notifications" on page 77).
Troubleshooting SyncThru™ Admin 5 provides remote troubleshooting. You can remotely restart or print
test pages (See "System" on page 43, "Device information" on page 34).
Security
SyncThru™ Admin 5 provides features for security (See "Security reference" on
page 92).
User Role Management SyncThru™ Admin 5 can assign users to user roles. A role is a set of permissions for
SyncThru™ Admin 5 features (See "User Roles" on page 71).
FEATURE DESCRIPTION
Driver Management SyncThru™ Admin 5 Driver Management offers basic functionality for managing
drivers, remote-installing, and configuring drivers into remote computers
Job Accounting SyncThru™ Admin 5 Job Accounting offers basic accounting functions to reduce
printing cost and waste.
Device Map SyncThru™ Admin 5 Device Map offers a graphic map of where devices are located.
You can create, modify and delete your own device map.
FEATURE DESCRIPTION
Powerful monitoring SyncThru™ Admin 5 has improved device monitoring features. There are many ways to
see devices’ statuses (See "Dashboard" on page 23, "Main Device List" on page 30 and
more).
Proactive management SyncThru™ Admin 5 provides features like alert notification, reports, etc. to manage the
devices and check their statuses. You can also receive the notifications via email (See
"Alert Notifications" on page 77, "Report settings" on page 64).
Active Tasks SyncThru™ Admin 5 provides active tasks list. With this list, you can see all the active tasks
in SyncThru™ Admin 5 with details (See "Site navigation bar overview" on page 12).
Dashboard SyncThru™ Admin 5 has a new menu called Dashboard. Dashboard is useful for both
monitoring and managing devices (See "Dashboard" on page 23).
Device configuration SyncThru™ Admin 5 provides many ways to configure devices including the Configuration
menu, which you can use to configure devices with various features (See "Configuration
overview" on page 41).