OverviewWhat may seem like magic is the result of years of hard work by veterans of the imaging industry. Keeping in mind that a meter collection system is only as good as the information and accuracy of the information it provides, the FMAudit product line is architected and designed to take advantage of the advanced features and benefits of the Microsoft .NET platform. What wasn’t possible just a few years ago is delivered by FMAudit in a compact and user friendly interface. The result is it no longer takes a skilled technician to install software and then spend time to configure and maintain the system as with similar products. FMAudit Viewer USB may be used by a typical sales person for the purposes of a print assessment, FMAudit Onsite deployed by a technician with minimal software and networking experience and FMAudit WebAudit may be initiated by the sales person or even the end-user.
How It Works
The core engine, which is the heart of every FMAudit product, identifies networked printers, copiers and MFP's using the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). SNMP is an application layer protocol
that facilitates the exchange of Management Information Base (MIB) between network devices. A Management Information Base (MIB) is a collection of hierarchically organized characteristics of a managed device, comprised of one or more object instances, which are essentially values. An object identifier (or object ID) uniquely identifies a managed object in the MIB hierarchy. Using patent pending Identity Mapping Technology (IMT), FMAudit correctly identifies re-branded models. Once identified, information is extracted using a combination of SNMP and FMAudit’s patent pending Hyper-Meter Technology (HMT) that combines a mixture of multiple protocols, communicating and extracting information from a multitude of different areas within a device depending on its architectural design.
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