topic Re: printer is disabled in lpstat in Operating System - HP-UX

printer is disabled in lpstat

Sri123 — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:10:51 GMT

Hi,

I added a new network printer yesterday. It is showing disabled status in lpstat output. Its nopt enabling even after trying with "enable" command and in SAM.

I have confirmed that the printer is switched on and is ready.

Attached are the lpstat output and the hpnpadmin output.

/etc/hosts is fine as i have already added the printer.

Can someone help me to enable the printer.

Thanks in Advance!
Sridhar

Re: printer is disabled in lpstat

Shibin_2 — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:24:47 GMT

Have you check your scheduler running or not ?

lpstat -r

Re: printer is disabled in lpstat

Sri123 — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:26:09 GMT

yes,

it is running. Able to ping the printer IP.

# lpstat -r
scheduler is running
#
# ping 172.25.17.50
PING 172.25.17.50: 64 byte packets
64 bytes from 172.25.17.50: icmp_seq=0. time=1. ms
64 bytes from 172.25.17.50: icmp_seq=1. time=1. ms

----172.25.17.50 PING Statistics----
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 1/1/1

# nslookup 172.25.17.50
Using /etc/hosts on: GLBUD

looking up FILES
Name: gl_dl_lj8_1
Address: 172.25.17.50

Re: printer is disabled in lpstat

Sri123 — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:48:10 GMT

This is what is my /var/adm/lp/log shows:

hpnpf: unknown host gl_dl_lj8
disabling gl_dl_lj8_1
gl_dl_lj8_1-852 bnkupg3 gl_dl_lj8_1 Jan 19 08:40
Start: gl_dl_lj8_1-852 Wed Jan 19 08:40:27 uae 2011
End: gl_dl_lj8_1-852 Wed Jan 19 08:40:27 uae 2011
/etc/lp/interface/model.orig/gl_dl_lj8_1 landscape 12 lpi8
/opt/hpnpl/bin/hpnpf -j gl_dl_lj8_1-852+bnkupg3 -a1 -x gl_dl_lj8
hpnpf: unknown host gl_dl_lj8
disabling gl_dl_lj8_1
gl_dl_lj8_1-852 bnkupg3 gl_dl_lj8_1 Jan 19 08:43
Start: gl_dl_lj8_1-852 Wed Jan 19 08:43:51 uae 2011
End: gl_dl_lj8_1-852 Wed Jan 19 08:43:51 uae 2011
/etc/lp/interface/model.orig/gl_dl_lj8_1 landscape 12 lpi8
/opt/hpnpl/bin/hpnpf -j gl_dl_lj8_1-852+bnkupg3 -a1 -x gl_dl_lj8
hpnpf: unknown host gl_dl_lj8
disabling gl_dl_lj8_1
gl_dl_lj8_1-852 bnkupg3 gl_dl_lj8_1 Jan 19 08:44
Start: gl_dl_lj8_1-852 Wed Jan 19 08:44:20 uae 2011
End: gl_dl_lj8_1-852 Wed Jan 19 08:44:20 uae 2011
/etc/lp/interface/model.orig/gl_dl_lj8_1 landscape 12 lpi8
/opt/hpnpl/bin/hpnpf -j gl_dl_lj8_1-852+bnkupg3 -a1 -x gl_dl_lj8
hpnpf: unknown host gl_dl_lj8
disabling gl_dl_lj8_1
gl_dl_lj8_1-852 bnkupg3 gl_dl_lj8_1 Jan 19 08:45
Start: gl_dl_lj8_1-852 Wed Jan 19 08:45:38 uae 2011
End: gl_dl_lj8_1-852 Wed Jan 19 08:45:38 uae 2011
/etc/lp/interface/model.orig/gl_dl_lj8_1 landscape 12 lpi8
/opt/hpnpl/bin/hpnpf -j gl_dl_lj8_1-852+bnkupg3 -a1 -x gl_dl_lj8
hpnpf: unknown host gl_dl_lj8
disabling gl_dl_lj8_1

Any suggestions as what is the problem!!

Re: printer is disabled in lpstat

Sri123 — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:33:27 GMT

HI,

I modified the /etc/hosts from

172.25.17.50 gl_dl_lj8_1 to
172.25.17.50 gl_dl_lj8

Further, i did:

enable gl_dl_lj8_1

Then queue jobs seemed to start and things seems to be file now.

printer gl_dl_lj8_1 is idle. enabled since Jan 19 09:17
fence priority : 0

Is this a permanent fix for this Problem.

Kindly share the suggestions!!

Thanks in Advance,

Sridhar

Re: printer is disabled in lpstat

Shibin_2 — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:55:05 GMT

Looks like, while you installed the printer, you have specified name, instead of IP address. And that name went wrong. Now that you found out solution and corrected. Keep it up.

Re: printer is disabled in lpstat

Rita C Workman — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:40:49 GMT

One thing you could have done, using HP's
Jetdirect, is to change the LP destination (queue) name and re-enter the name and remove the "_1" and then say OK when you created the printer.

If you make sure the print queue for this one is clear, you could delete the one you have; use Jetdirect and recreate it to remove that "_1".

Rgrds,
Rita

Re: printer is disabled in lpstat

Sri123 — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:58:23 GMT

Thanks