HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 3 69
Planning Your HPDPS Configuration
Planning DCE Extended Environment Groups
Planning DCE Extended Environment Groups
The level of printing and administrative functions you can enable spans
a wide range; you will want to plan to provide the appropriate functions
to your users. Understanding how to group categories of users and
provide appropriate printer and queue access and event notification
helps simplify a complex print environment.
HPDPS is designed to support three types of users: end-users, printer
operators, and administrators. After you install HPDPS in the DCE
Extended Environment, you might create a pd_operator group and a
pd_admin group using the pddcesetup command. You can define
additional groups that have operator, administrator, or end-user levels of
permission. For instance, if all of your operators have global access to all
servers and printers, you might need only the default operator group,
pd_operator. If, however, you have operators with overlapping
responsibility or specialized responsibility, such as supporting printer
devices used for confidential information, you might want to define
additional groups. See pddcesetup (1M) for more information.
Security Considerations
HPDPS security is based primarily on the security services of DCE, and
so is available only in the DCE Extended Environment. As you define
your groups, you will want to plan to use DCE authorization to control
access to printers, servers, and queues. You may have certain printer
devices that all users might use and other printer devices that only
selected users may access. You can configure logical printers to restrict
printer use to certain types of printing, such as duplexed printing. If you
have more than one logical printer associated with the same queue, you
can set up the security for those logical printers so that some users will
have access to all the features of the printer devices and others can use
only certain features. See Chapter 8 , “Managing DCE Security for
HPDPS,” for detailed information.
Notification Considerations
HPDPS provides highly flexible tailoring of event notification for each of
its objects. You can select event categories rather than individual events
when you set up the notification for any HPDPS object. These categories