HP Retail Manageability - White Paper

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The same information can be obtained using PowerShell:
$strComputer = "."
$colItems = Get-WmiObject -Class Peripheral -Namespace
"root\hp\retail" -computername $strComputer
$Counter=1
foreach($objItem in $colItems) {
if ($objItem.PhysicalDeviceDescription -ne "") {
Write-Host ($Counter++) `t
$objItem.InformationLastUpdated `t `
$objItem.PhysicalDeviceDescription
}
}
The image below shows some of the HP Thermal Receipt Printer properties that can
be accessed using the HP Retail WMI Provider.
The WMI provider also creates the HP Retail Log in Windows® Event Viewer. For
more details about the HP WMI Provider, please refer to the documentation
included with the provider, which can be downloaded from
http://www.hp.com/go/clientmanagement or from the Support and Drivers portal
associated with supported HP Retail Point of Sale systems.
UnifiedPOS
The National Retail Federation's Association for Retail Technology Standards
(ARTS) has developed the OLE for POS (OPOS) Retail Peripheral Architecture to
standardize application to device interfaces. Support for asset tracking has been
part of OPOS for years and more recent versions include new properties and
methods for peripheral manageability, but these features are not comprehended
by most leading systems management solutions. HP products provide access to
these features through standards-based interfaces, allowing retailers to maintain
optimal efficiency in their environments.