Intermate 100 17.8. Load Balancing Pools (NDO only)

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Processing Facilities: “Load Balancing Pools” (NDO only)
17.8. “Load Balancing Pools” (NDO only)
When you implement NDO, you have the possibility of placing
several of the physical, target printers into a common load bal-
ancing pool. Load balancing intelligently routes incoming jobs
to the first free or least loaded printer in a pool.
Important:
Printers in a pool must have identical processing
features, and the safest bet is to only pool identical
printers.
Let us assume that the physical printers “local” (0), Netw1 (1),
and Netw2 (2) are identical (printer type A) and that Netw3 (3)
and Netw4 (4) are identical (printer type B). This means that
you can potentially define the following load balancing pools,
and note that (for example), 3,4 is not the same definition as
4,3:
0, 1, 2
1, 2, 0
0, 2, 1
1, 0, 2
2, 1, 0
2, 0, 1
0, 1
1, 0
0, 2
2, 0
1, 2
2, 1
3, 4
4, 3
Regardless of the model of your print server, defining a pool
requires the use of logical printers. The practical details of this
are explained in
“Load Balancing Pool” [page 153] , where princi-
ples for ordering your printer number entries are also
explained.
If you do not use logical printers for data manipulation, your ar e
finished with this chapter. If you do use logical printers for data
manipulation you might want to continue with the next section
in this chapter.