Moving Printers...

[Ty Roberts]

Does anyone know if it is possible to "copy" printers between several servers? We have an environment where we need the SAME printers on 5 servers. Instead of using HPPI to create the printers on each of the servers is there a way to just copy the files between?? If do you know the listing of ALL the files that need to be moved..

I am hoping this will save me some typing and some repetitive work...

Thanks,
Ty

[Dave Chamberlin]

There are a couple of ways to do this. Do a search in this forum for "restore spooler". There are several posts that give the details.

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Ty


you may like to look at this document :

http://support2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=200000058668757


Manoj Srivastava

[A. Clay Stephenson]

There are 2 methods:

1) Use SAM->Printers & Plotters -> LP Spooler -> Save/Restore Spooler Configuration -> Actions -> Save (or Restore)

You then copy the files under var/sam/lp to the other hosts and run the Restore.

2)
Copy /etc/lp/*, /var/spool/lp/* (and make sure that the proper symbolic links are maintained /usr/spool -> /var/spool. MAKE CERTAIN that ownership and group are maintained.

2B) You could use rdist to keep these files in sync.

[Sandip Ghosh]

There is a command called "transferqueue", it will transfer all the queue to other Server.
For details look at
#man transferqueue

Sandip

[Rich Wright]

Here is a script that I use. I create the print queue on the "$FR_HOST" server that usually has no printing activity going on.
Then I run this script that will watch for an idle moment and make the change with minimal effect on the ongoing printing that "lpshut/lpsched" causes.

#!/bin/sh
FR_HOST=source_host
PR=$1
MM=$(date +%b)
DD=$(date +%d | sed 's/^0//')
while [ $(lpstat -o -i | grep -E "$MM[ ]+$DD[ ]+.*on" | wc -l) -gt 0 ]
do
echo ".\c"
sleep 5
done
echo ""
if [ $(hostname) != ${FR_HOST} ];then
rcp ${FR_HOST}:/etc/lp/interface/${PR} /usr/spool/lp/model/${PR}
rcp ${FR_HOST}:/etc/lp/interface/model.orig/${PR} /etc/lp/interface/model.orig/${PR}
if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
echo "model script for ${PR} not available"
echo "rcp from ${FR_HOST}:/usr/spool/lp/model/${PR} FAILED"
exit 1
fi
fi
lpshut
lpadmin -x${PR}
lpadmin -p${PR} -m${PR} -v/dev/null
lpsched -a
accept ${PR}
enable ${PR}
rm /usr/spool/lp/model/${PR}
exit

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

As mentioned, transferqueue is a good way to copy the queues. You can also use addqueue in a script since addqueue only needs 2 parameters: hostanme/IP and queue-name. The run the script on each machine. addqueue is by far the easiest way to add a JetDirect printer.