Mackie manual Configuring a new host, Start the Xprint V7.0 system, Configuration hints

Administering hosts Configuring Xprint V7.0

●If the database was not installed in the course of product installation or has failed for any reason, you must initialize it now as follows:

/var/spool/Xprint/config/bin/DBinstall -f

●Start the Xprint V7.0 system:

xpstart

Now define the new Xprint V7.0 administrator if you do not want to perform this task any longer as root on the host now defined as the primary master. In this manual the user ID xprintadm is used as an example ID for the Xprint V7.0 administrator. To configure the Xprint V7.0 administrator proceed as follows:

●Define the Xprint V7.0 administrator xprintadm as a user of this host (e.g. using the administrator interface sysadm).

●Add the user xprintadm to the Xprint V7.0 configuration: xpadd -usrxprintadm

●Modify the Xprint V7.0 configuration such that xprintadm becomes the new Xprint V7.0 administrator:

xpmod -sys -ad xprintadm

Once you have performed these steps, you, as the Xprint V7.0 administrator, can configure printers and other Xprint V7.0 objects on the host.

6.1.2Configuring a new host

Configuration hints

Xprint V7.0 allows interoperability between different administrative domains, which need to be connected by gateways. All the hosts in an administrative domain share the same database contents. Each definition of an Xprint V7.0 object or change of state involves a database update, which must be reflected on each host in the domain. This database propagation mechanism requires a reasonably fast network, which will allow connections to be opened quickly and rapid data transfer.

The required data transfer rate between hosts is in the order of megabits per second. A typical example of such a network is Ethernet. Different domains can be connected by slower networks (possibly wide area networks) as there is generally less traffic between domains than within a domain.

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