topic Re: hpux 11.31 network printing in Operating System - HP-UX

hpux 11.31 network printing

Doug O'Leary — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:20:27 GMT

Hey;

Just upgraded an oracle system to hpux 11.31. I copied over the printers using the

#/usr/sam/lbin/lpmgr -S -xsavedir=/var/tmp/printers
# /usr/sam/lbin/lpmgr -R xsavedir=/var/tmp/printers

combination and the printers are showing up as accepting connections.

# lpstat -plp5200
printer lp5200 is idle. enabled since Jan 27 10:06
fence priority : 0

Yet, when I print something to it, the print job just hangs there.

Anyone got a hint at what I'm doing wrong? This one's probably an easy one as I don't really do printers very often...

Thanks.

Doug

Re: hpux 11.31 network printing

Paul Maglinger — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:38:39 GMT

Are these network printers? Do you have them defined in your hosts file?

Re: hpux 11.31 network printing

Manix — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:41:04 GMT

whats the output for lpstat -t

Re: hpux 11.31 network printing

Doug O'Leary — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:42:19 GMT

Hey;

They are network printers, not defined in /etc/hosts; however, their IP addresses are defined in the printer interface definition.

I've verified that I can ping the IP and that I can telnet to the IP/9100 and print something manually. (hello, world).

I just tried adding another network printer and it's complaining about not having hppi or jetadmin commands available. So far, a search of software.hp.com isn't showing anything for network printing at all, much less freely available software.

Thanks for the reply.

Doug

Re: hpux 11.31 network printing

Doug O'Leary — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:44:21 GMT

lpstat -t output:

# lpstat -t
scheduler is running
no system default destination
device for lp3005: /dev/null
device for lp3052: /dev/null
device for lp3055: /dev/null
device for lp4: /dev/null
device for lp4250: /dev/null
device for lp5200: /dev/null
device for lp60: /dev/null
lp3005 accepting requests since Jan 25 16:02
lp3052 accepting requests since Jan 25 16:02
lp3055 accepting requests since Jan 25 16:02
lp4 accepting requests since Jan 25 16:02
lp4250 accepting requests since Jan 25 16:02
lp5200 accepting requests since Jan 25 16:02
lp60 accepting requests since Jan 25 16:02
printer lp3005 is idle. enabled since Jan 25 16:02
fence priority : 0
printer lp3052 is idle. enabled since Jan 25 16:02
fence priority : 0
printer lp3055 is idle. enabled since Jan 25 16:02
fence priority : 0
printer lp4 is idle. enabled since Jan 25 16:02
fence priority : 0
printer lp4250 is idle. enabled since Jan 25 16:02
fence priority : 0
printer lp5200 now printing lp5200-2. enabled since Jan 27 10:06
fence priority : 0
printer lp60 is idle. enabled since Jan 25 16:02
fence priority : 0
lp5200-2 root priority 0 Jan 27 10:32 on lp5200
(standard input) 11989 bytes

Re: hpux 11.31 network printing

Jose Mosquera — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:54:56 GMT

Hi,

I guess that you have hppi software installed in HP-UX 11v3. Are you comming from hppi or oldest JetAdmin on your old server?

I guess that you have hppi software installed in HP-UX 11v3. Are you comming from hppi or oldest JetAdmin on your old server?
In the past I had to make a change similar to yours, but coming from Jetadmin to HPPI, was necessary done a conversion process that generates the tool "transferqueue" (opt / hpnpl / bin / transferqueue). This conversion proccess must be done in your new system after recover the spool schema (lpmgr -R). For detailed and useful information:
#man transferqueue

Rgds.

Re: hpux 11.31 network printing

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:57:44 GMT

Try this:

HP JD Printer Installer for HP-UX 11.x
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=18922&taskId=135&prodTypeId=18964&prodSeriesId=27349〈=en&cc=us

Re: hpux 11.31 network printing

Manix — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:01:33 GMT

HP Web Jetadmin is available @ the link below

https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=J6052AA

Re: hpux 11.31 network printing

Doug O'Leary — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:04:00 GMT

Hey

Problem was the lack of jet direct software. We found it, installed it, and everything's working perfectly. Thanks again for your responses.

Doug O'Leary