Administrator's Guide

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System Administrator Guide
Designating Printers as Super Nodes
The Xerox
®
extension for McAfee ePO uses up to three Xerox
®
printers as supernodes to communicate
with the other Xerox
®
printers that it monitors. Xerox recommends that you designate more than one
Xerox
®
printer as a supernode. If one supernode is not functioning or is offline, McAfee ePO can use the
other supernodes to communicate with other printers. You designate printers as supernodes by adding
specific entries to your DNS server.
Note: Your Xerox
®
printers and your McAfee ePO server must use the same DNS server.
Adding DNS Entries to One or More Existing Domains
If you have a small number of domains in your network, use this method to add DNS entries to each
domain.
1. On your DNS server, find the domain of each printer that you want to designate as a supernode.
2. For each domain, add entries for all supernodes, then name them:
− XeroxDiscoverySuperNode1
− XeroxDiscoverySuperNode2
− XeroxDiscoverySuperNode3
3. If your network uses more than one DNS server, repeat the previous step for all other DNS servers.
Adding DNS Entries to a Single New Domain
If you have a large number of domains in your network, use this method to add DNS entries to a single
domain.
1. On your DNS server, create a domain named Xerox.local. The Xerox extension for McAfee ePO looks
for a domain with this name.
2. For Xerox.local, add entries for each supernode, then name them:
− XeroxDiscoverySuperNode1
− XeroxDiscoverySuperNode2
− XeroxDiscoverySuperNode3