Migrate Print Queues

[Ajaykrishnan K N]

I want to migrate around 350 Print queues from AIX to HP-UX.

Most printers are connected using HP Jetdirect on Aix Machines ( LAser printers as well as line printers - dump model)

Is there any scripts/commands which be helpfull for me to migrate the entire print queue

Thanks in advance

Ajay

[Mridul Shrivastava]

Have a look at the following forum, may be useful:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1064849

[Peter Nikitka]

Hi,

there is a utility named '/opt/hpnpl/bin/transferqueue'. The documentation states:
>>
transferqueue transfers queues from one machine to another
by retaining the configuration options that were set through
Unix JetAdmin/JetDirect Printer Installer Utility. This
script will ONLY transfer queues from HP-UX 10.x/11.x to
HP-UX 10.x/11.x or Solaris 2.x to Solaris 2.x. Transfered
queues will only work in Network Printer Installer for Unix.
<<

It does not explicitly tell us about AIX, but I would try...

mfG Peter

[Geoff Wild]

I did this a long time ago...

Steps taken to originally create the queues:

Ran the following script on aix:
printer.name.list >printer.name.list.out

#!/bin/sh
# Display all physical printers
exec 0while read line
do
p=`echo ${line}|awk -F_ '{print $1}'`
ip=`nslookup ${p} |grep 156|grep -v 192.168.1.10 |awk -F: '{print $2}'`
echo ${p} ${ip}
done

192.168.1.10 = your primary dns server on AIX...

Transfered printer.name.list.out to iprprt.

Ran the following script on iprprt:
/opt/hpnpl/queue-admin addqueue

#!/bin/sh
# script to add-delete queues
# Geoff Wild
#
if [ $# -lt 1 -o ( $# -gt 1 -a $# -lt 4 ) ]
then
echo "Usage:"
echo "queue-admin "command""
echo "Example:"
echo "queue-admin addqueue"
echo "queue-admin removequeue"
exit 1
fi


if [ $1 = "addqueue" ] ; then
exec 0while read line
do
p=`echo ${line}|awk '{print $1}'`
echo "adding queue " ${p}
# 9998 is net_genericprinter Modelscript
$1 -i 9998 -h ${p}.pcacorp.net -q ${p}
done
else
lpshut
exec 0while read line
do
p=`echo ${line}|awk '{print $1}'`
echo "removing queue " ${p}
lpadmin -x${p}
done
lpsched
fi

That created all the SAP printers using the Generic Printer Model Script (9998).

Rgds...Geoff

[Bill Hassell]

Unless you are using custom code on the AIX system, there is no compatibility between the two OS's for print queues. On the AIX side, you need to develop a file of printer names and IP addresses, like this:

laser21 12.34.56.78
laser44 23.45.67.89

etc. The AIX system is talking to the HP printers using lpr/lpd protocol and not the preferred HP protocol using port 9100. But there is a very useful program on HP-UX that will create each printer queue from just those two parameters: addqueue. So using awk, you can change the file to read something like this:

addqueue -q laser21 -h 12.34.56.78
addqueue -q laser44 -h 23.45.67.89

Then just run the above as a script on HP-UX and you'll have all your queues built with the advantage of a significantly larger selection of options (see man net_ljx000)