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

Planning a Workgroup
Planning your Printer Configuration
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Consider your
Users
To figure out how you want your HPDPS system to manage the printers,
ask yourself about the needs of your user population:
• What patterns do you observe among your users in the way they
access the printers? Do they print continually throughout the day or
in spurts? Are they printing from forms or onto letterhead? Is much
time expended waiting for printouts at certain times of day or from
certain printers but not others?
• Can your users be grouped according to their needs?
• What kinds of defaults do each group of users need?
• How should the flow of print requests be distributed to your printers?
To formulate a plan of how to apply the HPDPS objects to the needs of
your users, review the following sections of the HP Distributed Print
Service Administration Guide:
• The Minimum HPDPS Configuration, in Chapter One.
• Configuring HPDPS to Meet the Needs of Your Users, in Chapter
One. This section introduces a variety of arrangements of HPDPS
objects.
• Selecting Logical Configuration Models, in Chapter Three. This
section assesses the advantages and disadvantages of various
configurations of HPDPS objects.
Design Your
Physical
Configuration
Determine how many clients, spoolers, and supervisors to install.