HP Retail Manageability - White Paper

OPOS drivers are provided for supported operating systems for all HP peripherals.

Applications can support manageability by accessing peripherals directly through

OPOS or through the HP Retail Windows® Management Instrumentation driver.

This architecture allows retailers to manage their devices using the most

appropriate methods for their business at minimal implementation cost.

For more information about UnifiedPOS, please refer to

http://www.nrf-

arts.org/content/unifiedpos.

LANDesk Management Suite

HP customers using LANDesk Management Suite can expedite the PC setup

process from hours to minutes and remove the need to stage setup in their IT

departments. The LANDesk software addresses some of the top IT concerns,

including energy conservation, device and BIOS management, retail OS and

reporting support, and hardware-failure alerts.

When used with the HP Retail WMI Provider, LANDesk also provides enhanced

insight into HP retail peripherals. Flexible reports can be generated that can be

grouped by cash lane or device category, and events can be triggered at user-

defined peripheral property thresholds. For example, you may want to clean

printers after a certain number of hours of operation or paper cuts, or wear-level

all of your devices by moving them from more to less frequently used lanes.

The LANDesk console enables HP retail peripherals to be managed using the same

easy to use interface and workflows as it provides for point of service systems.

There’s no need to use secondary applications or access them directly through

WMI or OPOS, retail peripherals show up in the same inventory list as other

system assets like hardware and software components. The console also

understands how to access HP system BIOS information and can even take a

snapshot of settings from a “golden” system to be applied to all similar systems in

the retail environment or a grouping of your choice.