LDAP Printer Configurator Support

Managing the LP printer configuration

Managing the LP printer configuration

The LDAP-UX Client Services provide the printer configurator integration; the product daemon automatically updates the remote LP printer configuration of a client system based on the available printer objects in the Directory Server. The printer configurator provides the printer configuration management; it verifies if the printer configuration has any conflict with the LP printer configurations in the client system before it actually adds or deletes a printer.

Following are five examples to show how the LDAP printer configurator provides central management of printer services based on the printer objects stored in the Directory Server:

Example 1:

An administrator sets up a new printer located in the Engineering Lab and wants this printer to be shared. This printer is physically connected to a system hostA and is set up as a local printer lj2004. The administrator creates a new printer entry in the directory server as follow:

dn: printer-name=laser2,ou=printers,dc=hp,dc=com

printer-name: laser2

printer-uri: lpd://hostA.hp.com/lj2004

A new printer configuration for laser2 is created automatically in every client system if the LDAP printer configurator is running. The print queue for laser2 is enabled and ready to accept print jobs. Users can sent their print jobs to laser2 by typing lp -dlaser2filename.

Example 2:

IT department would like to store additional service information in the printer object. The administrator modifies the printer object by adding more printer attributes. The modified content of the printer object is shown as below:

dn: printer-name=laser2,ou=printers,dc=hp,dc=com

printer-name: laser2

printer-uri: lpd://hostA.cup.hp.com/lj2004

printer-location: Engineering Lab

printer-model: Hewlett Packard laserjet Model 2004N

printer-service-person: David Lott

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