Activate the telemetry option in Watchdoc

Principle

The operation of the Watchdoc Supervision Console (WSC), requires the prior activation of the Telemetry setting in Watchdoc^®. This activation allows the sending of the operating data to the server hosting WSC. 

since version 6.0.0.4800, the activation of telemetry on the master server is automatically replicated on a domain's slaves servers.

The telemetry option is subject to a specific license. Check beforehand that your Watchdoc^® license has this option.

Procedure

To activate the telemetry option :

1. access Watchdoc^® as an administrator;

2. from the Main Menu, Configuration section, click on Advanced Configuration:
   

   
   

3. from the Advanced Configuration interface , click on System Configuration:
   
   

4. in the System configuration interface, access the Telemetry section;

   • Enabled: tick the box to enable the feature allowing data to be sent to WSC;

   • Server: configure the telemetry server that hosts the Supervision Console with the following settings;

   • Host: indicate the FQDNS (or constant IP address) of the server that hosts WSC;

   • Port: indicate the port to access the host server (if it is different of the default port);

   • TLS/SSL: tick the case if the access to the server is secured by a protocol:
     
     

     
     

5. click on the button to validate the Telemetry option's validation.

6. Once the Telemetry option enabled in Watchdoc^®, configure WSC.

Check

1. To check that everything is working correctly, log on as administrator to the Supervision Console;

2. from the Main Menu, click Print Servers;

3. the server on which telemetry has been enabled appears in the list of print servers servers managed by WSC :