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Product Updates · February 16, 2026

Printing, Storage and Peripherals: Hardware That’s Finally Manageable

If you work in IT every day (as an MSP or an internal team), you already know this reality:

  • printers that work today and fail tomorrow
  • stuck print queues and “ghost” jobs
  • disks filling up with no early warning
  • peripherals that “someone plugged in” and nobody documented

In this release, Lunixar RMM focused on one clear goal: making hardware management practical, fast and usable, instead of something you only open when everything is already on fire.

This isn’t a raw changelog. These are the changes you actually feel in daily operations and why they matter.

1) A central hardware view (everything in one place)

A new centralized hardware view was added, with dedicated cards for:

  • Hardware inventory
  • Printers
  • Storage
  • Peripherals

The real improvement isn’t just visual. It’s the workflow: instead of jumping between scattered sections, a technician opens a device and knows exactly where to go. On mobile, everything renders as clean cards instead of painful tables.

Practical tip: this dramatically shortens onboarding for new technicians. Less explanation, more action.

2) Printer management with better UX (fewer clicks, more control)

Printer management was redesigned by moving actions into a context menu directly from the printer name, and improving print queue controls inside the dialog.

What this means in practice:

  • Open the device
  • Go to printers
  • Click the printer name
  • Manage actions and inspect the queue immediately

You now have proper visibility into the print queue and can take action without friction. This alone resolves a huge percentage of “it’s not printing” tickets—because very often, the problem was the queue, not the printer.

3) Reliable default printer detection (no more guessing)

Default printer handling was improved, including proper SetDefault support and compatibility aliases.

This sounds small, but during remote support it matters a lot. When a user says “I already set it,” you need the platform to show the real state—not an approximation.

4) Storage visibility that supports real decisions

Dedicated storage views were added with a responsive layout. The goal is simple: storage shouldn’t be a mysterious list—it should be something you can actually reason about.

This helps both in reactive support (freeing space, understanding volumes) and proactive work (spotting trends before disks hit critical levels).

5) Peripherals that actually help during support

Peripheral inventory isn’t a “nice-to-have.” In real operations, it’s how you:

  • understand what’s connected
  • diagnose why something stopped working
  • document a workstation properly without wasting time

With dedicated peripheral views and card-based layouts, this information becomes useful in the field, not just “data that exists.”

6) Not just UI: backend, websocket and agent working together

Behind these screens, important groundwork was done:

  • Dedicated backend endpoints for printers, storage and peripherals
  • Strict allowlists for printer actions
  • Viewer session–based routing to keep actions controlled and secure
  • Modular hardware handlers in the agent (Windows and Linux) with payloads aligned to the frontend views

In short: this isn’t a visual patch. It’s a solid foundation for growing hardware management without fragility.

7) What’s next: disks, SMART checks and maintenance

This is only the beginning of the hardware roadmap.

Upcoming work includes:

  • deeper disk administration
  • SMART health checks
  • preventive maintenance capabilities to catch failures early

The direction is clear: Lunixar shouldn’t just tell you something is wrong—it should help you operate, maintain and prevent issues.

Closing

Printers, storage and peripherals are the kind of problems that generate endless tickets if they’re not under control. With these updates, Lunixar RMM moves closer to what an operational RMM should be:

  • less friction for technicians
  • clearer visibility for decisions
  • and a strong base for what comes next

If you’re using Lunixar as a real production RMM, these are the changes that matter: less chaos, more control.