Printers can be defined or modified once the region has been started, using the
Enterprise Server for .NET Administration UI's
Printers view, or from the command-line using the
seeout or
casoututilities. Normally, printers would be defined in the region startup file to ensure that they are immediately available to
print job outputs once the region starts. However, there may be a need to modify the properties of existing printers, or start
new ones after a region has been started, due to a change in workload, for example. This procedure demonstrates how to define
printers in a running JES region, from the
Enterprise Server for .NET Administration UI's
Printers view:
- Select the running JES region from the Tree pane under
, and click
Printers in the
Actions pane.
The
Printers view is displayed in the
Results pane, showing each of the printers currently configured.
- A printer may be enabled or disabled by selecting it in the list and checking
Enabled. If the printer being disabled is currently being spooled to, the print operation is allowed to complete, but no further
spooling to it will be allowed until it is enabled again.
- To create a new printer, click the
Add Printer icon in the toolbar.
The
Add JES Printer dialog is displayed.
- Enter the name of the new printer, the job classes associated with the printer and a description of the printer in the
Printer name,
Classes and
Description entry fields respectively. The browse button at the end of the
Printer name entry field can be used to browse and select an installed printer as an alternative to you entering the name by hand (
The
Advanced tab is displayed.
- By selecting
SEP node affinity, you can specify the URI of a machine, or a network load balanced set of machines, on which outputs associated with this
printer are to be printed. Enter the name of the machine/ node in the
Host entry field. The full URI is displayed in the
URI entry field. The full URI only needs to be entered if a non-standard URI is being used in the scale-out.
Reasons to restrict the printing of outputs to a specific machine, or set of machines, include:
- The associated physical printer may not be available to all machines
- The outputs need to be printed from machines in specific geographic areas
Click
OK to dismiss the dialog and create the printer. The newly created printer now appears in the list of printers in the Results
pane. See
6 in the diagram below :
Note that any changes made in this view will be lost at the next cold-start of the region unless the corresponding changes
are made to the printer configuration in the region startup file. However, changes made in this view will be retained across
subsequent warm-starts of the region.