Mackie V7.0 manual Administering servers, Adding a server, Add a server

Configuring Xprint V7.0 Administering servers

6.15Administering servers

A server is responsible for scheduling print jobs and administering the job database. Furthermore, it controls the supervisors and printers which are assigned to it. A server can have several supervisors assigned.

If you want to...	Read...
add a server	section “Adding a server” on page 193
delete a server	section “Deleting a server” on
	page 196
change the status of a server, activate	section “Changing the status of a
or deactivate a server	server” on page 197
modify the attributes of a server	section “Modifying the attributes of a
	server” on page 198
Table 25: Administering servers

6.15.1 Adding a server

Configuration hints

When defining servers, supervisors and devices in a domain, a good practice is to attach the device and supervisor to a server that is local to the host controlling the device. This guarantees that jobs can be submitted to the printer as soon as the host controlling the printer is up and running. Unless specified otherwise, this is the default situation that Xprint V7.0 will create for new devices that are added to the system.

A good ’rule of thumb’ is that a server should not control more than three super- visors and a supervisor should not control more than fifteen devices. It is important to remember this if you are using the Xprint V7.0 default, as you may need to manually adjust the balance of supervisors and devices.

If a supervisor is moved from one server to another, remember that jobs submitted to the supervisor’s device(s) will not be automatically redirected to the new server. So you should only move a supervisor when all the jobs submitted to its printers have finished printing.

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