LDAP Printer Configurator Support
Overview
Overview
Management of network printing is complex, and printers themselves are more complicated. Instead of having printer configuration and information scattered over client systems and printer servers, they can be stored and managed from a single repository. LDAP is suited to build a backend printer configuration database. LDAP-UX enables the centralized management of printers, and the printer entries can easily be distributed to clients to reduce concerns about synchronization of configuration information. LDAP-UX comes with a printer configurator to consolidate printer configuration and control of printer devices into the LDAP Directory Server for a central location of printer management.
Definitions
Printer Services
HP-UX provides LP spooler system with the LP subsystem to manage printers and print services requests. The LP subsystem is a collection of 18 programs that operate on the resources (files and subdirectories) in LP spool directory to perform their functions, such as lpadmin, rlpdaemon programs, and lp command.
Printing Protocol
The LP spooler system has built-in support for sending jobs to other hosts that running rlpdaemon. rlpdaemon is a line printer daemon (LPD) for handling remote spool requests. This feaure enables the user to install a printer on one host and make it accessible from other hosts. It also works with printers/printservers that have network interfaces that support the LDP protocol. The LPD network printing protocol is the widely used network printing protocol in the UNIX world.
LP Printer types
The LP spooler supports the following three types of printers:
•A network printer which is a printer connected to a network interface or printserver.
•A remote printer is a printer configured on a system other than the one you are logged into when you submit a print request.