Provisioning Operations

Review all your centrally-managed printer and driver updates, installations, and removals, all in one place.

Provisioning Operations are tasks you assign from Control Center that execute on connected computers in your system. Installing printers, updating drivers, or removing print queues creates a new entry in your log of pending, ongoing, and completed Provisioning Operations in Control Center. Use your list of provisioning operations to see the status of your operations, view scheduled operations, and review operations with errors. Provisioning helps you maintain your centrally managed printing system and plan future updates.

Note

Provisioning operations do not appear in History. Provisioning operations remain on your Provisioning Operations page for 30 days after creation, then they delete automatically.

Example: How provisioning helps

Installing and updating drivers in enterprise environments can be difficult to coordinate and schedule. To avoid shutting down production just to install updates, printer drivers are not always kept up to date on every computer. A lack of coordination can result in you running different versions of the same driver on different computers, leaving your printing process prone to downtime, errors, and printing inconsistencies across your system.

With centralized provisioning operation management, you can immediately see what updates, installations, and removals you have scheduled, the status of completed operations, and whether they were successful or had errors. Use this information to better understand your daily operations in multiple locations and schedule routine updates across your entire printing system.

Go to Control Center > Printers > Overview to see your most recent provisioning operations:

Click on Provisioning Operations to open your list page of all provisioning operations in your system:

Your detailed list includes provisioning Operation name, Date created, Status (Finished or Error), and the number of Printers, Computers, and Driver packages each operation affects.

Note

If your provisioning operation fails, you can see the cause listed in Control Center. if you need more information, consult the log on your connected computer.

Click an Operation name to open the Operation page and see more information including Computer, Status, and Details:

Toggle + and - next to individual computers to see Printers affected, Progress, whether the printer is Installed (Yes or No), and Details of all executions of your selected operation.

Provisioning operations in Control Center help you see your centrally-managed updates and installations, diagnose problems, and maintain your global printing system.