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

Planning a Workgroup
Planning your Printer Configuration
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A sample HPDPS configuration with an Extended Environment might
have one or more clients, one or more spoolers, and one or more
supervisors, distributed among several host systems.
Figure 2-4 Sample HPDPS Extended Environment
In Figure 2-4 on page 120, fancy, tango, and kenya are host computer
systems, on which are configured HPDPS objects that are distributed in
an Extended Environment. The entire environment may be managed
(using SAM) from any system on which a client is configured. Thus, fancy
and tango may be used to manage all HPDPS objects, including those
configured on kenya. Attached to kenya is a locally configured printer,
which necessitates that an HPDPS supervisor reside there. Users of
fancy and kenya may send HPDPS print requests to any HPDPS printer
because clients are configured on their systems. The user attached to
tango may not submit HPDPS print requests, even though the HPDPS
spooler is configured there. However, by using the lp spooler, tango’s user
may send print requests to any HPDPS-configured printer. The lp
spooler is able to handle the print requests and forward them to HPDPS
printers.
For further information, read the section, “Planning your Physical
Configuration, in Chapter Three of the HP Distributed Print Service
Administration Guide.