HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 3 59
Planning Your HPDPS Configuration
Planning Your Physical Configuration
Determining How Many Supervisors to Install
A complex print environment will typically have multiple supervisors for
every spooler that is installed.
Install supervisors in your network according to the following guidelines:
• Install a supervisor on each host that has a direct-attached printer
(such as a printer attached to a serial or parallel interface) that will
be part of the HPDPS environment.
• Install a supervisor on at least one host to support non-direct-connect
printers, such as a network printer, or a remote lp or lpr spooler. Any
supervisor on any host might be chosen to support a particular
network-attached printer.
The size and number of jobs being processed determines the number of
network printers that the supervisor can support.
Each time you add a printer to your print environment, identify either
an existing supervisor that will support the printer device or create a
new supervisor according to the guidelines given above.
Migrating Your Printers to Be Managed by HPDPS
An important consideration as you plan your physical configuration is
deciding which printer devices you actually want to use with HPDPS.
You might have some personal printers, for example, attached to
non-HP-UX systems that are being used effectively today and you see
little advantage in managing them with HPDPS. For most of your
installed printers, however, whether attached to HP-UX systems or
directly to the network, you may find immediate advantages in
migrating them to the control of HPDPS.