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RICOH InfoPrint Manager V4.10.1 – Now Available
Amy Buckingham, WW ATS
RICOH InfoPrint Manager V4.10.1 (English+French/Italian/German/Spanish/Japanese) became available on April 16th. This release provides the National Language Support for IPM. Note that for any trial requests, the customer receives V4.10.1, on a 60-day trial basis. To request a trial, go to this URL: ricohsoftware.com/trial_request For internal users, be sure to include 'ricoh' as part of the e-mail address to automatically be approved.
The Ricoh Software Infocenter is also updated with 4.10.1 documentation: help.ricohsoftware.com/swinfocenter/
InfoPrint Manager is a worldwide frontrunner of printing services, continuing to improve function and ease of use to support a multitude of today’s printing environments.
Updates and changes made in IPM 4.10.1:
Cloud considerations
When you configure a virtual operating system in the cloud, make sure that you follow the same considerations as when you configure the system on the ground.
Recommendations:
Important
RICOH InfoPrint Manager V4.10.1 – Now Available
Amy Buckingham, WW ATS
RICOH InfoPrint Manager V4.10.1 (English+French/Italian/German/Spanish/Japanese) became available on April 16th. This release provides the National Language Support for IPM. Note that for any trial requests, the customer receives V4.10.1, on a 60-day trial basis. To request a trial, go to this URL: ricohsoftware.com/trial_request For internal users, be sure to include 'ricoh' as part of the e-mail address to automatically be approved.
The Ricoh Software Infocenter is also updated with 4.10.1 documentation: help.ricohsoftware.com/swinfocenter/
InfoPrint Manager is a worldwide frontrunner of printing services, continuing to improve function and ease of use to support a multitude of today’s printing environments.
Updates and changes made in IPM 4.10.1:
- Noted in the IPM Linux Release Notes: The Linux Mobile Secure Print Feature was removed. You can use InfoPrint Manager in conjunction with Ricoh StreamlineNX for similar functionality.
- Updated cloud considerations in RICOH InfoPrint Manager AIX & Linux Configuring and Tuning Guide with specific recommendations for driving continuous form printers. Here is the new version with key changes highlighted:
Cloud considerations
When you configure a virtual operating system in the cloud, make sure that you follow the same considerations as when you configure the system on the ground.
Recommendations:
- Enable SSL/TLS encryption at the InfoPrint Manager level to increase the communication security between InfoPrint Manager components.
- Make sure that you use a static IP address for the public part of the InfoPrint Manager infrastructure.
- Configure your cloud solution for persistent MAC address of the network card used for the InfoPrint Manager instance.
- Store the data in a persistent storage, to ensure that it is not lost across operating system reboots.
- Make sure that the InfoPrint Manager system runs in a secured virtual network in the cloud, so that the communication and data cannot be accessed from the Internet.
- Back up your data regularly to maintain data integrity.
- High availability can be ensured by multiple virtual systems that are configured identically and use the same storage area.
- The InfoPrint Manager architecture lets the customer split the work between cloud and ground. The InfoPrint Manager supervisor can run on the ground, while the command processor and spooler can run in the cloud. For more information on InfoPrint Manager architecture, see Parts of the server, p. 16.
Important
- This is recommended only for transaction customers because of the print speed requirements. Distributed print customers can print directly from cloud.
- To allow for satisfactory print speeds, the printer server(s) running the InfoPrint Manager supervisor pdserver should be on the ground in the same location(s) as the printers and connected to them via the local LAN.
- The cloud + ground model is not viable for continuous form printing, unless there is a dedicated high-speed, low-latency channel from cloud to ground.
- Other recommendations for driving continuous form printers:
- Use a direct Gigabit connection whenever possible.
- Run the job locally with InfoPrint Manager, bypassing the network.
- The network latency (ACK time interval) can greatly influence printing performance. Buffer the data at the printer when sending data over a longer period of time.
- Even if there is a network pipeline dedicated for continuous form printers, the network should be viewed as a potential single point of failure. Make redundant high-speed pathways available.
- Use the Save page mode, invoked by activating the optimize-for-multiple-copies attribute for the Ricoh printers that support it. Thus the job can be spooled onto the printer before printing begins.
- To see which ports you must open so that InfoPrint Manager can run and communicate with the ground devices, go to Ports used by InfoPrint Manager for AIX or Linux, p. 87.
For security purposes, you must start using a VPN between the cloud and the ground network. The InfoPrint Manager communication with the clients and printers is not encrypted.
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• The tables of Commonly Used Ports were consolidated. The one in the IPM Reference is the most complete since it is for AIX, Linux and Windows and has been updated to show the Port Type I/O.
• The default log-size for error and trace logs was increased:
o ERROR: change default from 1024 to 16384
o TRACE: change default from 8192 to 131072
o NOTE: This change affects the pdserver, the notifyd and the SAP callbacks. On Windows, the LPD service uses the spl_trace.sfg in order to enable traces, but it does not consider the log-size value. On Windows, MMC's Control tracing dialog is not affected. It reads and displays the maximum trace log size from the /var/pd/spl_trace.cfg or the install path/spl_trace.cfg. The pdsettrace utility is not affected by this change as it does not set the trace file size.
• Updated license link for LKMA and ipin_response file. (It was not working previously.)
• Security fix - Cross-Site code injection. (Requested by a large customer, this vulnerability relates to the possibility to run JavaScript directly in the browser.)
• Related to security vulnerability scanning:
o Update OpenJDK to 8u282
o Update OpenSSL to 1.1.1j
o Update Tomcat to 8.5.63
• Indexes were removed from all publications. This was based on a Ricoh-wide decision for all publications.
Release 4.10.1 includes resolution for these CCRs for AIX/Linux/Windows:
• DE40894: pdlicmgm utility command fails if DISPLAY is not available or not detectable.
• DE40915: Java GUI on BSD destination attribute-map control does not display the correct labels for attributes job-identifier (displays ID instead of Global ID) and jobclient-identifier (displays Job instead of ID)
The respective release notes are attached. Refer to these for complete lists of CCRs for each release and OS:
• IPM.AIX.Release.Notes.V4.10.1.pdf (122.86 KB)
• IPM.Linux.Release.Notes.V4.10.1.pdf (121.47 KB)
• IPM.Windows.Release.Notes.V4.10.1.pdf (121.96 KB)
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