Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Planning a Workgroup
Planning your Printer Configuration
Chapter 2114
• “Why use HPDPS?” on page 115
• “Planning to Implement HPDPS” on page 116
• “Familiarize yourself with the HPDPS Objects” on page 117
• “Sample HPDPS Basic Environment” on page 119
• “Sample HPDPS Extended Environment” on page 120
• “Determining Filesets to Install and Where to Install Them” on
page 121
• “Plan your HPDPS Logical and Physical Configurations” on page 117
• “Design Your Physical Configuration” on page 118
• “Familiarize yourself with the HPDPS Environment Variables” on
page 121
• “DCE and HPDPS Extended Environment” on page 122
• “Planning Personnel Groups” on page 123
For procedures to configure and administer HPDPS, see:
• “Configuring Printers to Use HPDPS” on page 444
• “Administering HP Distributed Print Service (HPDPS)” on page 710
What is HPDPS?
The HP Distributed Print Service (HPDPS) is a print administration and
management product that represents an advancement beyond the LP
spooler system. HPDPS handles large-scale and distributed print
environments to a degree impossible using the LP spooler alone.
Both LP spooler and HPDPS may coexist in the same environment; code
compatibility enables you to make a gradual migration to HPDPS.
Though HPDPS is managed differently from the LP spooler, end users
can continue to use familiar LP spooler commands in a HPDPS
environment.
HPDPS provides a complete set of
• end-user printing functions to submit and control print jobs
• system-administrator functions to control the distributed print
environments