Technical Document
EnglishBarTender System Security
SELECTING THE BEST SECURITY MEASURESFOR YOUR BARTENDER® ENVIRONMENTSUPPORTS: BARTENDER ® 2021 AND LATER VERSIONSContents
Overview
BarTender Security and Government Standards
BarTender Application-Based Security
Print-Only Password
Who should use the print-only password?
Which editions of BarTender support it?
BarTender Document Password Protection
Protecting individual features
Supplying the password to access protected features
Who should use document passwords?
Which editions of BarTender support it?
BarTender Security Settings
Initial Planning
Limit members of the Administrators group
Create user groups
Configuring Your Security SettingsSpecifying the data storage location
Adding users and groups
Turning Off the BarTender Security Settings
Turning off encryption for existing documents
User Permissions
Who should use user permissions?
Which editions of BarTender support it?
Logging Permission Checks
Who should use logging?
Which editions of BarTender support it?
Electronic Signatures

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Who should use electronic signatures?
Which editions of BarTender support it?
Document Encryption
Guarding against possible loss of your documents
Who should use encryption?
Which editions of BarTender support it?

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Database Security
Protecting Database Files
Protecting the BarTender System Database
Who should use database protection?
Which editions of BarTender support it?
Revision Control
Overview of Librarian
Who should use Librarian?
Which editions of BarTender support it?
Restricting and Monitoring the Printing Environment
Limit Printing Access at the Document Level
Limit Printing Access for Users and Groups by Using Administration Console
Limit Modification of Documents with Print Station
Who should use Print Station?
Which editions of BarTender support it?
Limit the Ability to Print with Print Portal
Who should use Print Portal?
Which editions of BarTender support it?
Monitor Printing with Printer Maestro
Who should use Printer Maestro?
Which editions of BarTender support it?
Monitor Printing with History Explorer
Who should use History Explorer?
Which editions of BarTender support it?
Other Security Issues
Related Documentation

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Overview
Whether you're running a small business or a huge enterprise, it's important to protect your
BarTender documents and databases from unauthorized modification and printing. Your needs may
be as simple as preventing accidental design changes by inexperienced users or as complex as
requiring document encryption and creating multiple user groups that have different editing andprinting permissions. This technical document describes the security measures that BarTender
offers, so that you can decide which ones are right for you and your business.
The following security options are described:llApplication-level security, including password protection for documents and for BarTender
Designer
The BarTender built-in security settings, which administrators can use to set up systemwide
permission checks in Administration Console, to require users to log on for specific actions,and to encrypt BarTender documentslDatabase security to protect users' data files and the BarTender System Databasel

Revision control to prevent multiple users from overwriting each other's changes to a filelPrinting security to restrict and monitor a user's ability to print BarTender documents

BarTender Security and Government Standards
A variety of government agencies, both in the United States and internationally, require highstandards in the area of electronic security and record-keeping. For example, the United States Foodand Drug Administration (FDA) published their 21 CFR, Part 11 guidelines, which include detailed
descriptions of the access control, logging standards and electronic signatures that they want to see
in a secure electronic record-keeping system. Other agencies, such as the US Department of
Defense, provide their own guidelines.
BarTender is almost always used as part of a larger software system. Therefore, installing it does notin and of itself ensure compliance with any one security standard. For example, no printing software
package will lock down your central database system for you, provide you with general network
encryption, and control the vulnerabilities of the other software programs that are running on yourenterprise. However, BarTender does provide the core security and record-keeping functions thatare required in document design and printing to support the implementation of a secure printing
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BarTender Application-Based Security
BarTender includes some basic application-based security measures that can easily be
implemented in your environment and that require little administrator input or continued
administration. We recommend these measures for non-enterprise printing environments.

Print-Only Password
A print-only password prevents the design functionality of BarTender from being used by any person
who does not have the password. This is the quickest security measure to set up, but it is also themost easily defeated.
After you configure a password, BarTender always starts in "print-only" mode. Any user who opens adocument in that copy of BarTender can still view the template on screen and print it but cannot
modify template objects or use the Administer menu options without entering the password.
This security measure is adequate for preventing accidental
design changes by production personnel. However, it is notnearly as powerful as some of the other methods that thistechnical document describes. For example, if you are using only
the print-only password for security, a user who is running
another copy of BarTender that is located on another computer
could copy a BarTender document to their computer and thenchange the design there.
You configure the print-only password by using the Print-Only
Password Setup dialog, which you can access on the Administermenu.
To enter print-only mode after you configure the print-only
password for the first time, you must exit and then restart BarTender.
After the user enters the print-only password, BarTender exits print-only mode. To re-enter print-only
mode, the user must exit and then restart BarTender.

Who should use the print-only password?
lSmall businesses that have a single copy of BarTender and have no reason to expect
malicious attacks from outside the company

Which editions of BarTender support it?
lProfessional, Automation and Enterprise

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BarTender Document Password Protection
A BarTender document password protects a specific
BarTender document (as opposed to the print-only
password, which locks all of the BarTender functionality). It
offers a quick and easy way to protect specific aspects of
selected BarTender documents from malicious or accidental
modification and to optionally prevent unauthorized printing.
The password that you configure is unique for each
BarTender document. After you configure a password, you
can select the actions within that document that you want toprotect from unauthorized users.
BarTender document passwords cannot be breached bycopying the document to another computer. The password isencrypted, so that hackers cannot read it out of the stored
document. By configuring a password, you can protect
access to some or all aspects of the document.
You configure the BarTender document password by using
the BarTender Document Password Setup dialog, which you
can access on the File menu.

Protecting individual features
After you configure the password for your document, you can specify which actions you want todesignate as “protected actions.” When any of these check boxes are selected, users areprompted to enter the password before they can perform those actions.
For a complete list of actions that can be protected by the document password, refer to the
BarTender Document Password Dialog topic in the BarTender help system.

Supplying the password to access protected features
After you specify and store a document password within a document, users are automatically
prompted for the password when they try to perform a protected action.

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Any business that needs to password-protect individual documents to prevent
unauthorized modification and printing
Designers who have Administrator privileges who want to protect a document or aspectsof a document that they are working on
Businesses that want a higher level of security than is provided by print-only passwords
but still want an easy process for setting up their security environment
Managers who want to specify which aspects of a document can be accessed by editors
or print personnel

Which editions of BarTender support it?
lProfessional, Automation and Enterprise

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BarTender Security Settings
The BarTender built-in security settings control whether specific actions can be performed byindividual users or groups of users for each application in the BarTender Suite. By using thesesettings, system administrators can prevent both malicious users and well-intended curiosity
seekers from making application configuration changes, modifying a document or document data,and printing documents.
The integrated security settings are managed by using the Security module in Administration
Console. The Security module is available for every BarTender edition, but certain functionality
depends on the edition that you have installed, as follows:ll

The Professional edition supports the user and group permissions feature, which you can use
to configure user permissions that specify the actions that each user or user group can
perform.
The Enterprise edition supports the electronic records and signatures feature, which you can
use to configure the following:lll

Logging of permission checks when you want BarTender to log users' attempts toperform certain actions, whether the user has permission to perform the action or not
Electronic signatures that require users to submit their logon credentials before accessis granted to the user for specific actions
Encryption keys for BarTender documents

For more information, refer to the Security section of the BarTender help system.

Initial Planning
To achieve a maximally secure environment with the least amount of effort, carefully plan yoursecurity settings before you configure them. For example, you should plan in advance to address thefollowing considerations.

Limit members of the Administrators group
By default, all users that are members of a Windows computer’s Administrators group have fullcontrol of Administration Console on that system. Therefore, they can change security settingsand even turn off security completely. Because of this, you must ensure that the Administratorsgroup is appropriately configured on any computer that can run BarTender or Administration
Console.
This caution is consistent with the Microsoft recommendation that general system users should
not be part of the Administrators group.

Create user groups
If you have many BarTender users, you may find it useful to define groups of users by using
standard Windows Security features. When you do this, you can create or modify settings for allusers in that group at one time instead of repeatedly configuring settings for one user after
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You can create these groups locally on the computer or on the Windows domain. We recommendthat you consider creating multiple groups, one for each type of user. For example, you could
create one group that is called DocumentEditors for those users who are authorized to create
and modify documents and another group that is called PrintOperators for those users who are
authorized only to print. You create these groups by using the standard Windows user and groupmanagement tools.

Configuring Your Security Settings
After your planning and preparation are done, you are ready to run and configure your security
settings by using Administration Console. The first step is to click to select the Enable Security forthis computer check box on the Security page of Administration Console to make the BarTendersecurity settings available.

Specifying the data storage location
You can store separate security settings, including user permissions, electronic signatures andaccess logs, locally in a text file for each BarTender installation. When you run the Enterprise
edition, shared settings can be stored in a single location in a shared BarTender System
Database.

Adding users and groups
To give individuals and groups rights in Administration Console, the system administrator mustfirst create them as Windows users. Then, you can add them to Administration Console and thenconfigure the actions that they can perform.

After Administration Console is installed and security turned on, any
Windows users or groups that you do not include in the user list areautomatically denied permission to all actions in the BarTender Suite.

Turning Off the BarTender Security Settings
To turn off the BarTender security settings, follow these steps:
1. Run Administration Console.
2. On the Security page, click to clear the Enable Security for this computer check box.
3. Click OK.
When you do this, all permission checks that are based on the Administration Console security
settings are turned off.

Turning off encryption for existing documents
Turning off your security settings does not make encrypted documents readable again. To makeencrypted documents readable, you must temporarily turn on your security settings again. Then,
use the Document Encryptor tool on the Encryption page to set the encryption for the
documents to <None>. You can then turn security off again.

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User Permissions
By configuring user permissions, you specify what actions can be performed within the BarTender
Suite based on the identity of the person who is logged on to that computer. For example, you canspecify that a given user or a member of a specific group is allowed to select a printer and start a
print job but is not allowed to alter the design of a document or change any data in the document.
After you add the users and groups that you
want to Administration Console, you can
individually configure the permissions for any ofa large number of available actions.
Click to select the appropriate check box todefine permissions for the selected user, or
leave both check boxes blank to denypermissions. These permissions work exactly
the same as they do for Windows Security, whichmeans that the absence of explicit permissions
for a given action is the same as selecting the
Deny option.
The ability to leave the security settings blank(so that neither Allow nor Deny is selected) foran action is an important way that BarTendersupports a security configuration in which anindividual user is also a member of one or moreuser groups. In this situation, the access rights
of a specific user to perform an action may
depend on the combination of multiple sets of
security settings. The following rules are used toresolve any permissions conflicts that may
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If the settings for an action are set to Deny for any security entity for which the user is amember, then the user is not allowed to perform that action.
If no Deny settings for an action are present in any security entities for which the user is amember, then the user is allowed to perform that action.
The absence of any Allow or Deny settings for an action within the security entities for which auser is a member is the same as a Deny status for access to that action.

A denied action can be overridden by another user who has the appropriate permission.
For the full list of user permissions that can be controlled by using Administration Console, refer tothe User Permissions Page topic in the BarTender help system.

Who should use user permissions?
lBusinesses that have enough employees and/or complex enough documents that it isimportant to control which aspects of BarTender a user or group can access. For example,

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deny them access to Printer Maestro if printing is not part of their job. Likewise, you mightwant to allow your print team access to Print Station, Printer Maestro and Reprint Console
but deny them permission to modify or save documents.
lBusinesses that have high security requirements. The user-based permissions feature is
the single most powerful security feature in BarTender.

Which editions of BarTender support it?
lProfessional, Automation and Enterprise

Logging Permission Checks
In some cases, system administrators need to do more than simply set permissions that allow someusers to perform certain actions that other users cannot. You might want to know which users try to
perform certain actions when they were not granted permission to do so. Administration Console
can log these permission checks to the BarTender System Database, and then later, you can view alist of permission checks by using History Explorer.
The combination of permission checks logging and the electronic signature feature is an importantpart of satisfying a number of high security standards, including the US FDA 21 CFR Part 11
guidelines, which require that electronic signatures be captured for certain actions.

Who should use logging?
lBusinesses that have high security needslBusinesses that are held to government regulation security standardslBusinesses that suspect or anticipate attempted security breaches

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lEnterpriseElectronic Signatures
By using Administration Console, administrators can require an electronic signature (or user logon
credentials) for all users who perform actions within the BarTender Suite. When users perform
actions that require an electronic signature, a dialog is displayed to request that they resubmit their
Windows credentials. This is similar to what is requested when users first log on to Windows at the
beginning of the day.
Electronic signatures require that a user's name and password be entered regardless of whether
the currently logged-on user has already been configured in Administration Console to have theappropriate permissions. This configuration provides an extra layer of security. For example,
suppose that a user walks away from his or her workstation without locking it and another user who
has lower-level security rights tries to perform security-sensitive actions. When electronic signatures
are used, that user is prompted to submit logon credentials before being allowed to proceed.
For an electronic signature to be associated with a specific user action, you must also ensure thatthe user (or his or her group) has been granted permission to that action on the User Permissions
page. Combined with the Administration Console logging capabilities, electronic signatures can keep
track of who requests what actions in BarTender.

Who should use electronic signatures?
lllBusinesses that have multiple people using a computer, especially if they sometimes
share their logon credentials for that computer
Businesses that are held to government regulation security standards, some of which
require the use of electronic signatures
Businesses that suspect or anticipate attempted security breaches

Which editions of BarTender support it?
lEnterprise

Document Encryption
The protection that BarTender provides can be defeated if someone copies a document from acomputer that has security enabled to an unsecured workstation. A similar security breach occurs if
somebody installs another copy of BarTender elsewhere on the network but does not install
Administration Console on that computer. In both cases, an unauthorized individual could possibly
modify or print the previously secure documents.
To solve this problem, you can encrypt BarTender documents by using Administration Console. Aftera document is encrypted, it becomes unreadable except when it is accessed by an authorized user
on a properly-configured computer. If encrypted documents are moved to a different computer, theycannot be read unless Administration Console is installed there and somebody knows what security
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You must enter encryption keys into Administration Console only at setup time. You are neverprompted to enter them while you load a document. After you enable document encryption anddefine at least one encryption key in Administration Console, the encryption is performed
automatically as each document is saved during normal use. Similarly, the decryption is performed
automatically as the documents are opened (and they must be opened before they can be printed).
Any instance of Administration Console can optionally store multiple encryption keys to allow
decryption of documents that are encrypted by multiple sources.
You can always change, add or remove encryption keys from documents that you have encrypted.
For more information, refer to the Managing Encryption topic in the BarTender help system.

Keep track of your encryption keys. If you lose or delete an encryption
key that was used to encrypt a document, you can no longer use that
document.

Guarding against possible loss of your documents
To start encrypting documents, you must first enter an encryption key into Administration
Console. The key is stored in Administration Console and then used to automatically encrypt anddecrypt your documents.
Encryption keys are text strings, somewhat similar to passwords. The difference is that when you
lose a password (such as for an online banking or email account), you can usually get a new one,but if you lose an encryption key after it has been used to encrypt documents, there is no way to
get a replacement key. This means that if you lose the associated encryption key after you
configure Administration Console to encrypt documents, you are likely to be prevented from everopening those documents again.
You could lose the copy of encryption keys that are located on a computer under the following
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The computer is stolen.
The computer incurs damage to its hard drive that causes the associated copy of
BarTender to be destroyed or to otherwise lose access to its encryption keys.
A member of the Administrators group deletes the Administration Console security file on
the user’s hard drive.

In any of these circumstances, if your documents were backed up or located on anothercomputer, you could still use them as long as you had previously recorded and stored the valuesof your keys in a secure location. Therefore, to minimize the likelihood that you could be left with
documents that you cannot read, we recommend that you take one or more of the following
precautions:lBack up your local security file whenever you back up your computer’s hard drive. Bydefault, the local security file is stored in the following location:

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Set up one or more additional copies of BarTender on your network, and then configure
the associated copy of Administration Console to use (and therefore store) the same key
value.
Write the key values down on paper and then store them in a location that is not readily
available to others.

Who should use encryption?
lllBusinesses that have multiple computers and that do not want to make documents
readable, writable or printable by users of all computers
Businesses that are held to government regulation security standards, some of which
require the use of encryption
Businesses that suspect or anticipate attempted security breaches

Which editions of BarTender support it?
lEnterprise

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Database Security
In BarTender, a database can be one of the following things:ll

A database file that is a data source in your BarTender document
The BarTender System Database, which is a Microsoft SQL Server-based database that isused by applications in the BarTender Suite to store print job information, application
messages and security permission checks

You can protect both database files and the BarTender System Database in a variety of ways.

Protecting Database Files
If your goal is to protect only the database files that are connected to your document fromunauthorized modification by certain users or groups, you can do one or more of the following:lllProtect a database file on a single computer from modification by using the Windows
Properties dialog to make the file read-only.
Password-protect the database file in the application it is written or stored in (such as
Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle).
Check the database in to Librarian, and then restrict access to specific users or groups byusing the Administration Console User Permissions page.

When you deny access to Librarian to specific users or groups,
you not only prevent them from editing database files, but you
also prevent them from editing any file in Librarian.

lPrevent a document from being modified or databases from being added to a document byusing the BarTender Document Password security feature or the User Permissions page in
Administration Console.

These settings do not prevent a user from opening a databasefile outside of BarTender and modifying it.

Protecting the BarTender System Database
A certain amount of protection is built in to the BarTender System Database setup and modification
process. When you set up the BarTender System Database for the first time, you are prompted forWindows authentication or proprietary system database (such as SQL Server and Oracle)
authentication. Any users who try to modify the BarTender System Database on that computer are
also prompted for authentication. If they do not have authentication rights to the computer or to the
copy of the database on the computer, they cannot modify the database.
Non-technical employees can inadvertently wreak havoc on the BarTender System Database by
misusing powerful companion applications such as Integration Builder. The easiest way to prevent

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Who should use database protection?
lllBusinesses that have enough employees or teams that accidental modification, deletion,or overwriting of databases is a possibility
Businesses that have multiple people who are using one copy of BarTender
Businesses that want to protect the BarTender System Database from accidental
modification or malicious attacks. Note that accidental modification can happen only if
multiple people have Administrator rights.

Which editions of BarTender support it?
lllWindows Security is not related to BarTender and is available on any Windows-based
computer.
Configuring user permissions by using Administration Console is supported by theProfessional, Automation and Enterprise editions.
Librarian is supported only by the Enterprise edition.

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Revision Control
Although revision control is not technically a security feature, it is an excellent way to prevent
multiple users from editing the same file at the same time and to keep track of who modified adocument and when. Your company might use a form of revision control system that operates
outside of BarTender, but the Enterprise edition of BarTender does include its own native revisioncontrol system: Librarian.

Overview of Librarian
Librarian is a revision control system for BarTender documents, images and other kinds of files. Afteryou add files to Librarian, they are stored in a centralized repository. To edit files, users must checkthem out of Librarian, which eliminates the possibility of multiple users editing the same file at atime. When the changes are complete, users check the files back in to the repository. Librariankeeps track of all revisions, logs the date and time of a modification, and logs the user who checked
the file in to the repository.
Librarian stores its files in the BarTender System Database, so that all users of the BarTender Suite
have access to them. Users who have the appropriate permission in Administration Console haveaccess to Librarian revision information, so that they can easily identify and keep track of revisions.
Revisions of a file are identified by serial numbers. When a file is first added to the repository, it iscalled "revision 1." When the first change is made to a file, the subsequent checked-in file is called"revision 2," and so on. At any time, a user can revert to a previous revision of a file or even restore adeleted file.
In Librarian, you can use configurable workflow states to track changes that are made to a file. (Forexample, your workflow states might be "First Draft", "Editor Review", "Stakeholder Review", and soon.) By assigning a state to a file, you can identify the progress of a file towards a goal. For more
information about how to use workflows in Librarian, refer to the Understanding Librarian Workflows
technical document:
https://www.seagullscientific.com/resources/white-papers/

Who should use Librarian?
llBusinesses that have multiple document designers, database programmers, writers orother employees who might accidentally overwrite each others' work
Businesses that have a formal editing and review process

Which editions of BarTender support it?
lEnterprise

For more information, refer to the Librarian section of the BarTender help system and to the
Librarian and Revision Control technical documents:
https://www.seagullscientific.com/resources/white-papers/

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Restricting and Monitoring the Printing Environment
If your company is larger than a handful of employees, it can be very important to monitor the print
environment. You want to make sure that only authorized personnel modify print settings and startor stop print jobs. You can control print access on a document level by using BarTender or at an
administrative level by using Administration Console.
You can also monitor and control printing by using the Print Station, Printer Maestro and History
Explorer companion applications.

Limit Printing Access at the Document Level
In each BarTender document, you can add a document password
that prevents unauthorized users from printing that particular
document. When you configure this security measure, users mustenter the password to print the document and/or modify any of
its print settings (such as printer, number of copies, printeroptimizations or caching options).
For more information, refer to the Document Password Protection
section of this technical document.

Limit Printing Access for Users and Groups by Using
Administration Console
You can use Administration Console to prevent users or groups
from printing any BarTender document. Administration Console also provides several other printing
rights that grant you more control over your printing environment, such as the following:lModifying the options in the Print dialoglPrinting "published" files and documents from LibrarianlPrinting "unpublished" files and documents

Limit Modification of Documents with Print Station
By using Print Station, users can browse to and quickly print BarTender documents (*.btw), process
files (*.btproc), and BarTender XML (BTXML) script files (*.btxml) with a single click.
In Print Station, users have no access to modify the documents; they can only print them. Systemadministrators can set up certain security measures for the application, such as selectively turningfeatures off, limiting the number of open documents, or requiring an administration password tomodify the Print Station settings.
By using Print Station, you can do the following:l

Browse BarTender documents and process files in thumbnail and verbose viewslPrint documents and process files with a single clicklPrevent users from changing settings by using password authenticationlPreview BarTender documents before they are printed

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Who should use Print Station?
lBusinesses of all sizes that need to quickly locate and print a document

Which editions of BarTender support it?
lProfessional, Automation and Enterprise

For more information, refer to the Print Station section of the BarTender help system and the Print
Station technical document:
https://www.seagullscientific.com/resources/white-papers/

Limit the Ability to Print with Print Portal
Print Portal is a web-based application that provides an interface for selecting and printing
BarTender documents. As with Print Station, users of Print Portal cannot modify the documents they
view; they can only print them.
As an administrator, you can configure Print Portal so that users must log on by using their Windows
accounts. To do this, you must first enable security and configure permissions in Administration
Console and then enforce these permissions by enabling authentication on the Advanced property
page of the Administrative Setup page of Print Portal. You can access this page by entering thefollowing URL into a web browser:
http://localhost/BarTender/Settings
On the Advanced property page of the Administrative Setup page, you can do the following:lllEnable authentication
Specify that users are automatically logged out after a certain amount of time elapses withno activity
Require that users enter a password before they can access the Administrative Setup
page

Who should use Print Portal?
lBusinesses that need to browse to, select, and print BarTender documents from any
operating system or platform that can run a web browser

Which editions of BarTender support it?
lEnterprise

For more information, refer to the BarTender Print Portal technical document:
https://www.seagullscientific.com/resources/white-papers/

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Monitor Printing with Printer Maestro
Printer Maestro is a powerful tool for monitoring printers and print jobs on your network. You canconfigure Printer Maestro to send you notifications via email, instant message or text message for avariety of events, including printer errors or warnings and inventory use thresholds. By using PrinterMaestro, you can do the following:lMonitor the status of all the computers in your networkl

Monitor the status of all the printers in your network and view their propertiesl

Monitor print jobs in your networks, including details such as the user who started the print
job, the computer from which the print request originated and the progress of the print joblView recent print jobs and the job's propertieslReprint a recent print joblTrack all events that affect computers, printers, print jobs and inventory items systemwidelConfigure a print management system for a cluster (which is a set of connected computersthat work together like a single system)

Who should use Printer Maestro?
lLarge enterprises that have complex printing systems

Which editions of BarTender support it?
lEnterprise

For more information, refer to the Printer Maestro section of the BarTender help system and thePrinter Maestro technical document:
https://www.seagullscientific.com/resources/white-papers/

Monitor Printing with History Explorer
History Explorer displays information that is stored in the BarTender System Database, such as print
job information for items that BarTender prints, application messages, security permission checks
and inventory levels. History Explorer provides a configurable interface that you can use to monitor
data in the BarTender System Database. By using History Explorer, you can do the following:lView BarTender print jobs and messageslView Printer Maestro print jobs and eventslView and filter print job recordslView security permission checks

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Who should use History Explorer?
lLarge businesses that need to monitor activity in the BarTender System Database forsecurity reasonslManagers who want to track BarTender and Printer Maestro activitylPrint teams who need to view and track print job records

Which editions of BarTender support it?
lAutomation (limited) and Enterprise

For more information, refer to the History Explorer section of the BarTender help system and theHistory Explorer technical document:
https://www.seagullscientific.com/resources/white-papers/

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Other Security Issues
In addition to the various security features that are built into the BarTender Suite, Windows itself
offers security features for protecting any file (not only BarTender files) and printers fromunauthorized use. This document does not describe these features, but they should be familiar to
any Windows system administrator. To create a secure printing system, it is important to know anduse these features and the security features that are available in any software that controls
BarTender.

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Related Documentation
Technical DocumentslAdministration Consolel

BarTender Print PortallHistory ExplorerlLibrarianlPrint StationlPrinter Maestrol

Revision Controll

Understanding Librarian Workflows

To view and download technical documents, visit:https://www.seagullscientific.com/resources/white-papers/

User GuideslGetting Started with BarTender
https://support.seagullscientific.com/hc/categories/200267887

BarTender Help SystemlConfiguring Document and Application Securityl

BarTender Document Password DialoglSecurityl

Librarianl

User Permissions Page

Other Resources
Please visit the BarTender website at https://www.seagullscientific.com.

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