jetadmin query

[Adam Noble]

Exciting as it is I need to understand how I can gather my current printer configuration from Jetadmin. Basically we are migrating to another platform which is Solaris. We will not be using jetadmin so I simply need to extarct printer queues and hardware from my current configuration. Does anyone know how I do this. I would imaging its possible. I don't want to have to do this one by one!!

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

jetadmin is the name for a very obsolete product that was replaced with hppi back in 1999. Now it may be confusing that JetDirect is the product family of HP LAN cards for printers. So unless you are running a very obsolete version of HP-UX, you should be running hppi software (found in /opt/hpnpl -- jetadmin is found in /opt/hpnp).

The good news is that the same software (hppi) is available for Solaris and the better news is that you can easily create an automated script to add all the printers with no interaction. NOTE: you don't want to add the printers to Solaris as print servers (ie, lpd/lpr style) as you will have limited functionality, especially with -o options.

To capture all the JetDirect printers and create an add-printer script, do this:

cd /etc/lp/interface
for PRN in $(grep -l ^PERIPH *)
do
IP=$(grep ^PERIPH $PRN)
echo "addqueue -h $IP -q $PRN" >> /var/tmp/addprinters
done

Then move the script over to the Solaris machine. Install HPPI software from:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?〈=en&cc=us&pnameOID=18924&taskId=135&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=27351〈=en&cc=us

Then make the script executable and run it. That will create all the print queues. NOTE: IP addresses are usually more portable, especially for printers. The problem is with DNS admins -- they sometimes forget to add or maintain printer IPs. If neeed, change all the -h options in the addprinters file to IP addresses. There's no need for printer hostnames in the spool system (HP-UX or Solaris).

[Jonathan Fife]

You can determine the printer port and server/ip address from the /var/spool/lp/interface file. I'd do something like the following:

for file in $(ls /var/spool/lp/interface); do
[ ! -f $file ] && continue
echo $file
egrep 'xPORT=|PERIPH=[^\$]' $file | sed -e 's/^/ /'
done

xPORT is the port number (9100 is the default) and PERIPH is the host name/IP address. It will list the output as:

queue_name
xPORT=9101
PERIPH=printer_name

HTH

[Geoff Wild]

You could download Jetdirect for Solaris - should make the migration less painful:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=18924&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=27351&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=1088

Rgds...Geoff