BRAdmin Light is a utility for initial setup of Brother network connected devices. This utility can search for Brother products on your network, view the status and configure basic network settings, such as IP address. The BRAdmin Light utility is available for Windows® 2000/XP, Windows Vista® and Windows Server® 2003/2008 and Mac OS X 10.3.9 (or greater) computers. For installing BRAdmin Light on Windows®, please see the Quick Setup Guide we provided with the machine. For Macintosh users, BRAdmin Light will be installed automatically when you install the printer driver. If you have already installed the printer driver, you do not have to install it again.
BRAdmin Professional 3 (for Windows
®)
BRAdmin Professional 3 is a utility for more advanced management of network connected Brother devices. This utility can search for Brother products on your network and view the device status from an easy to read explorer style window that changes color identifying the status of each device. You can configure network and device settings along with the ability to update device firmware from a Windows® computer on your LAN. BRAdmin Professional 3 can also log activity of brother devices on your network and export the log data in an HTML, CSV, TXT or SQL format.
For users who want to monitor locally connected printers, install the BRPrint Auditor software on the client PC. This utility allows you to monitor printers that are connected to a client PC via USB or parallel from BRAdmin Professional 3.
Web BRAdmin (for Windows
®)
Web BRAdmin is a utility for managing network connected Brother devices on your LAN and WAN. This utility can search for Brother products on your network, view the status and configure the network settings. Unlike BRAdmin Professional 3, which is designed for Windows
® only, Web BRAdmin is a server based utility that can be accessed from any client PC with a web browser that supports JRE (Java Runtime Environment). By installing the Web BRAdmin server utility on a computer running IIS
1, connect to the Web BRAdmin server, which then communicates with the device itself.
BRPrint Auditor (for Windows
®)
The BRPrint Auditor software brings the monitoring power of Brother network management tools to locally connected machines. This utility allows a client computer to collect usage and status information from a machine connected via the parallel or USB interface. The BRPrint Auditor can then pass this information to another computer on the network running BRAdmin Professional 3 or Web BRAdmin 1.45 or greater. This allows the administrator to check items such as page counts, toner and drum status and the firmware version. In addition to reporting to Brother network management applications this utility can E-mail the usage and status information directly to a predefined E-mail address in a CSV or XML file format (SMTP Mail support required). The BRPrint Auditor utility also supports E-mail notification for reporting warning and error conditions.
Web Based Management (web browser)
Web Based Management (web browser) is a utility for managing network connected Brother devices, using the HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol). This utility can view the status of Brother products on your network and configure the machine or network settings using a standard web browser that is installed on your computer.
For more information, see Chapter 10 of the Network User’s Guide on the CD-ROM we have supplied.
For increased security Web Based Management also support HTTPS. For more information see Chapter 14 of the Network User’s Guide on the CD-ROM we have supplied.
Driver Deployment Wizard (for Windows
®)
Driver Deployment Wizard is a utility for installation. It can be used to ease or even automate the installation of a locally connected or network connected printer. The Driver Deployment Wizard can also be used to create self running executable files which when run on a remote PC, completely automates the installation of a printer driver. The remote PC does not have to be connected to a network.
