Here are 2 ways to connect the UV spooler
directly to your 600 network printers.
1. use hpnptyd to make a pseudo serial port device
(/dev/pt...) for each printer. This would usually
be done at boot time, with a separate hpnptyd
process for each port, and you must wait until
after all of those 600 processes have started,
before you start your 2 spoolers (AIX and uv).
2. use universe spooler driver scripts that set
the PRINTERNAME environment variable and that
then call a common driver script that does
something like
cat | hpnpf -x ${PRINTERNAME} -w 2${PRINTERNAME}.logfile
(you'll probably want some other stuff - - see the scripts
that get installed on AIX when you install jetadmin.)
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My advice is to avoid both of the above methods.
Don't connect your 600 printers
directly to the UniVerse spooler.
You'll save time and money if you get a dedicated
Novell Netware print server.
Netware 6 isn't as simple as good old Netware 3, but,
for 600 printers, it would be your least cumbersome solution.
The Netware server could handle all of your print jobs, not
just the ones from UniVerse, but also the ones from other unix
applications, and the ones from Windows workstations and
Windows servers.
If not Netware, then get a Windows 2003 server (or you might
need a Windows server cluster) as a dedicated print server
for all Windows and Unix applications, including UniVerse.
Either way, using a Netware server or a Windows server (or
Windows cluster), is going to make print job management
easier than using the UniVerse and/or AIX spoolers.
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