LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00 Administrator's Guide

LDAP Printer Configurator Support
Overview
Chapter 380
Overview
Management of network printing is complex, and printers themselves
are more complicated. Instead of having printer configuration and
information scattered over client systems and printer servers, they can
be stored and managed from a single repository. LDAP is suited to build
a backend printer configuration database. LDAP-UX enables the
centralized management of printers, and the printer entries can easily be
distributed to clients to reduce concerns about synchronization of
configuration information. LDAP-UX comes with a printer configurator
to consolidate printer configuration and control of printer devices into
the LDAP Directory Server for a central location of printer management.
Definitions
Printer Services
HP-UX provides LP spooler system with the LP subsystem to manage
printers and print services requests. The LP subsystem is a collection of
18 programs that operate on the resources (files and subdirectories) in
LP spool directory to perform their functions, such as lpadmin,
rlpdaemon programs, and lp command.
Printing Protocol
The LP spooler system has built-in support for sending jobs to other
hosts that running rlpdaemon. rlpdaemon is a line printer daemon
(LPD) for handling remote spool requests. This feaure enables the user to
install a printer on one host and make it accessible from other hosts. It
also works with printers/printservers that have network interfaces that
support the LDP protocol. The LPD network printing protocol is the
widely used network printing protocol in the UNIX world.
LP Printer types
The LP spooler supports the following three types of printers:
• A network printer which is a printer connected to a network
interface or printserver.
• A remote printer is a printer configured on a system other than the
one you are logged into when you submit a print request.