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

Planning a Workgroup

Planning your Printer Conﬁguration

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HPDPS HP-UX client in the DCE cell. You can conﬁgure and monitor

printers, servers, and queues. You can set defaults for jobs users send

to HPDPS-managed printers.

• Conﬁgure your printing resources to balance workloads effectively.

— Give users with common job requirements access to the printers

that support their jobs.

— Distribute printer workloads, by routing jobs to any of several

printers capable of printing the jobs.

— Use different job or document defaults for speciﬁc printers or

users.

• Coexist with LP spooler.

— End users can use HPDPS without having to learn a new set of

commands. The lp command can be used to submit jobs to

HPDPS-managed printers, without any additional LP

conﬁguration steps.

— You can begin to use HPDPS after minimal conﬁguration, then

expand your implementation as needed.

• Receive real-time notiﬁcation of print system status. You can

conﬁgure “notiﬁcation proﬁles” so that HPDPS notiﬁes users where a

job is printed, as well as other events.

• Much HPDPS conﬁguration can be implemented using SAM.

Planning to Implement HPDPS

If you decide to implement HPDPS, take the time to read the ﬁrst ﬁve

chapters of the HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

before proceeding any further. This will give you an overall

understanding of the design, capabilities, and strategies used when

installing, implementing, and administering HPDPS.

For procedures, see “Implementing HPDPS” on page 444 or the online

help in SAM.

Assess your System Capacities Before you conﬁgure HPDPS, assess

your system for space, taking into account the following:

• disk space

• swap space

• paging space