Why Use EIS Agent? - Automatically gathers the meters and emails them as an Excel spreadsheet atttachment when scheduled. - Installation program is under 4MB in size, and it can be run from a USB drive, rather than installing it, if desired. - Device Discovery is quick. A typical segment can be searched in just a couple of minutes - EIS Agent does not rely on the email system of the end-customer to send meter data. It posts the data securely to a web server, from which the data is downloaded and sent via EIS Agent email. - EIS Agent can monitor locally installed printers as well as network devices, including copiers and MFP's How Does EIS Agent Work? EIS Agent discovers locally attached devices (printer, fax or scan ports that are managed by the Windows Spooler Service) as well as network devices that respond to Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) requests. EIS Agent sends out a broadcast to the local network requesting that devices respond. It then queries the devices to determine wheter or not they are printing devices. A list of nearby network segments is retrieved from the default gateway and is displayed so the user can tell EIS Agen which segments are to be searched for network devices. Only the segments selected will be searched. These same segments can be automatically searched periodically to determine if new devices have been installed on the customer's network. If a device is not discovered automatically during the network scan, it can be added manually by clicking on the "Add" button and entering either the Network Name or the IP address of the device. Alternatively, entire subnets or a range of subnets can be searched. When devices are discovered that respond to the SNMP requests, the data is sotred in a local database table. When it is time to send the data in a report, the data is sent to the web server using the HTTPS protocol, similar to how your browser communicates with banking websites. HTTPS is a seucre protocol. All of the data is encrypted before it is sent. The meter data is then pulled down from the web server in a separate process, put into an Excel spreadsheet, and emailed out to the email addresses entered in EIS Agent. This provess usually takes 1-2 minutes.
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