HP SDS Manager Portal 5.21.1.

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HP SDS Manager Portal 5.21.1.28

Release Highlights

New Features and Noteworthy Changes

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CONTENTS

Overview ......................................................................................................................................................... 2
HP SDS Manager Portal Changes ............................................................................................................................ 3
Revised Portal Look and Feel .......................................................................................................................... 3
HP Smart Device Services Enhancements ....................................................................................................... 3
Miscellaneous ................................................................................................................................................. 5

OVERVIEW
The latest release of the HP SDS Manager Portal 5.21.1.28 brings a fresh new look plus several new features,
enhancements and fixes.

Highlights include:

• Redesigned look and feel of application web pages.

• New dashboard summary display and search pages for managing HP SDS Engineering Advisories and
Report A Problem events.

• Additional bulk HP SDS actions across fleets of devices, including configuration settings changes,
enabling Report A Problem app, setting device on-screen message, and a new assess-only mode for
checking firmware level, credentials and configuration settings.

• Translations for five additional languages.

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HP SDS MANAGER PORTAL CHANGES

REVISED PORTAL LOOK AND FEEL

The styling of the Portal web application has been refreshed for a cleaner, more modern look and feel and the
HP SDS Engineering Advisories (including predictive advisories) and the Report a problem notifications are
shown on the dashboard

HP SMART DEVICE SE RVICES ENHANCEMENTS

ADDITIONAL HP SDS BATCH ACTIONS

The following actions are now available to schedule as a batch job to be run across multiple devices:

• Restart Device – Schedule a remote reboot of each selected device.

• Check/Update Device Firmware – Update to the latest available firmware for each device.
o Assess Only option: Report on whether the current firmware version for each device is the
latest available, without performing any updates.
• Check JAMC Has Correct Credentials – Assess whether the HP JAMC has the necessary credentials
(SNMP, EWS Admin login) to communicate with each device.
• Update JAMC Credentials – Set the EWS Admin or SNMP credentials the JAMC will use to
communicate with each device.
• Check and Configure Device - Set a selection of
configuration settings for each selected device.
o Assess Only option: Report whether device
settings match the specified settings, without
updating any settings on the devices.
• Configure Device Message – Set the same welcome
screen message across all selected devices, or disable
any existing welcome screen message.
• Configure Report A Problem App – Enable or disable the
SDS Report A Problem application on all selected devices.

To access these options, use the checkboxes to select one or more HP devices from any device list table and
click the “HP SDS Actions” button in the table footer.

Applying any of these actions places the job into a queue for background processing. The status of pending,
executing and completed batch jobs can be viewed using the Asset Management > Bulk HP SDS Actions menu.

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IMPROVED BULK HP SDS ACTION RESULTS

The display of Bulk HP SDS Actions batch results has been reworked, making it easier to view overall details of
the requested actions and their status across multiple devices, including drilling down into individual device
results.

Clicking the ‘details’ icon (highlighted in purple in the picture above) for an individual item in the table displays
detailed information about the operation:

Clicking the ‘view’ icon in corner of the Batch Items title bar (highlighted in yellow) switches the view to show
an alternative, extended form of the per-device results (note the type and content of information displayed
varies depending on the operation being performed):

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MISCELLANEOUS
• Translations added for additional user interface languages: Polish, Czech, Russian, Hungarian and
Turkish.
• Allow viewing of information about historical consumable requests for devices not currently set as
managed.
• New Count History and Usage report columns ‘Mono Pages’, ‘Colour Pages’ and ‘Total Pages’ offering
emulation of FMAudit meters of the same name.
• Device latest mono, colour and total counts now available for use in consumable request email
template.
• Include device Manufacturer, Model and Zone in Current Device Alerts search results.
• Request level, days left, and mono/colour count columns are now available in Consumable Requests
reports.
• Fix: Reseller/Customer Group scope user was unable to edit consumable part numbers on the device
model page.
• Fix: Editing a monitor’s licence expiry date no longer resets the licensed device limit to the default
value.
• Support for configuring XMPP destinations for consumable and alert messages has been removed.

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