[HPADM] SUMMARY: RE: installing printers@hp-ux11.11

From: Andreas Fischer (fischer_at_science-computing.de)
Date: 10/20/03

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    Hello,

    Many thanks to Rick, Bill and John who sent me solutions to my problem.
    I only used Rick´s method and have not tried the others, but I suppose
    they should work as well.

    Solution #1 (by Rick Starr)
    ===========

    part 1:
     One suggestion that you may find useful would to the "Save spooler state"
    Within SAM. "This actually uses the lpmgr command with the save spooler
    option"
    Spooler configs are saved to a directory under /usr/sam/? (I cant
    remember
    Actually where.) Once the spooler config is saved there you can tar it
    Into one file. Copy the file to the second machine into the same
    /usr/sam/?
    Directory. Then on the second machine either is the lpmgr command to
    restore
    the spooler state or go into the SAM "Restore Spooler config" option.

    One thing to watch here is if you are going from 11i to 11.0
    There is a defferent version of the jetadmin command and a conversion must
    be run. If you are going 11i to 11i no problem.

    You can automate this by using just the lpmgr command. I have successfully
    used this process in many environments where spooler configs need to be
    consistent between servers.

    Rick

    part 2

    The lpmgr command to save the spooler state is

    1) lpshut
    2) /usr/sam/lbin/lpmgr -S (The default directory is /var/sam/lp)
    3) lpsched
    4) tar -cvf /tmp/lp.tar /var/sam/lp
    5) copy the lp.tar file to other system
    6) tar -xvf lp.tar
    7) On remote system lpshut
    8) lpmgr -R
    9) lpsched

    Solution #2 (by Bill Hassell)
    ============================

    Use addqueue as in:

         /opt/hpnpl/bin/addqueue -h 12.34.56.78 -q printer_name1
         /opt/hpnpl/bin/addqueue -h 12.34.56.78 -q printer_name2
         /opt/hpnpl/bin/addqueue -h 12.34.56.78 -q printer_name3

      Repeat as needed. If you are using the obsolete jetadmin package and
      not the current HPPI (HP printer Installer) the path is
    /opt/hpnp/bin/addqueue.
      man addqueue (and man removequeue, etc) will give you the details.

    Bill

    Solution #3 (by John O Edwards)
    ==============================
    He sent me some useful scripts for managing the printers.
    If someone is interested in them I will ask for his permission to send
    them to you.

    Regards

    Andreas Fischer

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: hpux-admin-owner@DutchWorks.nl [mailto:hpux-admin-owner@DutchWorks.nl]
    > On Behalf Of Andreas Fischer
    > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 1:59 AM
    > To: hpux sysadmin mailing list
    > Subject: [HPADM] installing printers@hp-ux11.11
    >
    > Hello,
    >
    >
    > I used to install printers by jetadmin.
    > But I´d rather install them manually without the jetadmin (jetprinter)
    > interface. I would like to automate the installation on several machines
    > who get the same printer(s) and printer-configurations.
    >
    > Does anyone know how I can achieve this?
    >
    > Thank you!
    >
    >
    > Andreas Fischer
    >
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