No much parameters we can pass in except for the printer print queue name and file to print. Use the d option with the lp command to print to a specific printer. To remove the print queue and device previously created in this article, simply execute the code in listing 12. How to monitor and maintain printing via unix basis corner. If the status is stuck in sending, run fixq, press enter followed by the printer name ie.
Does anyone have a script that will automatically restart downed print queues in aix 5. On the server, we have a sas application that turns the stream into a pdf document and sends the pdf to a printer which is specified by the user on the zos application. When a job is done system processes the next job in the queue. About this document common question list problem list. To cancel a print job, issue the lpstat command to get the print job number. To update you, today we set the st and sh virtual settings to nothing, and guess what, the cover page stops coming out. If rembak does not receive a positive acknowledgment within its timeout period, the print request will fail and the queue will be taken down. Adds a subserver definition to the subserver object class. Aix print queues constantly going down solutions experts. The command chque, as given in the question, is used to manage attributes of the queue. Creating a remote print queue to a windows print server.
Find answers to aix print queues constantly going down from the expert community at. Maintains queues of outstanding requests and sends them to the proper device at the proper time. If traffic activity is light and few print jobs get sent through, the administrator can probably ignore the print queue as long as it continues. A print queue technically is a pair of stanzas or paragraphs in the file etcqconfig. Print queue goes down due to the back end time out period which is set at deafult value 90 sec while you are adding a print queue. I have about 30 printers print queues defined and this happens a couple of times a. Is there any way to print pdf files directly from aix system without converting into pdf to. Now the queue shows down and wont come up after a disableenable. How to monitor and maintain printing via unix basis. The oracle erp system submits a print job to the aix printer queue, which then. Both the lp and lpr commands support printing from the standard input. Arrow down to hostname of remote server, and enter the ip address or the hostname of the printer. Problem is, there is always a cover page with the user id, ip address, date, etc. Execute lpshut at a unix command line to shut down unix print services.
Print queue goes down due to the back end time out period. In my configuration, if a user turns off their hp laser jet for any length of time, my rs6000 daemon will sense a problem with the printer and stop the queue causing a restart. If the output is plain text, then i can help you converting it to postscript. I am facing a problem with remote printing in aix5l. Once you then enable the queue, any other jobs in queue will process successfully. Bring the new queue down and back up so the queue registers as ready. Setting up a printer in red hat linux involves setting up a queue for the print spooler or schedulerthe process that accepts and sends files for printing and does whatever is needed to get them printed. Applies to smit in aix using the command smitty print. The following tables contrast the structure of these operating systems. I would like to set up a printer devicequeue in aix 4.
Hi all, i have been asked for a script that at login it prompts for the print queue to restart, restarts it, waits 30 seconds, does an lpstat on it and then log script for print queue start ibm. Ive read a couple of posts that might offer solutions but im not well enough versed in unix to. If your output is from your aix program is postscript then you can directly use ghostscript to convert the ps to pdf in a local printer queue. The listing returned by lpq reports the rank, owner, job number, filename, and file size of each print job in the queue or actually printing. How can i start and stop printer queues for printer called hpljf2. If the printer still goes down, remove and recreate the aix print queue how do i remove a printer under aix.
If some queues are still down, bring them up by entering. To enable a queue whose status is down only user with admin privileges can run this. Find answers to aix print queues constantly going down from the expert community at experts exchange. Ibm aix printer management page 2 of 2 to cancel a specific print job. Lately ive noticed a strange problem with out print queues. How to add an aix print queue to point to a remote print server. What would cause the print queue to suddenly become down, ive check the cables and everything seems fine. To correct this, bring down the other queue or fix the problem with the printer. Aix places each print job into a queue to await printer availability. To check the status of an aix print queue for example, lp1. If there is no response to the pings, verify the printer s network connection.
Aix print queues have virtual printers and print devices associated with each queue. Tracks print job requests and the printers available to handle them. In order to get this information to a file, i need the file to appear as a print queue. In unix, how do i print files and list or remove print jobs. Aix printing always prints additional header page aix forum. If the printer device is off, the queue goes into the down state. When the last queue for a device is a removed, you will be prompted to see if you want to remove the print device. Execute lpshut at a unix command line to shut down unix print. You check the print queue attributes for the parameter. Brings a queue to a down state, so print jobs will not be lost.
I spent the last week working on a project to convert all of the forms printing at the circus from an aix server to a linux server. I am trying to create a printer queue, on a sunos 5. Solved creating a remote print queue to a windows print. Adblock detected my website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to my visitors. If a pdf file is printed via the aix ps driver, is the datastream sent in native data stream, or is it converted to ps or pcl before submitting to the printer. Aix has a very annoying feature where if it cant communicate with the remote printerprint server it takes the queue down, but doesnt bother to bring it up when it can communicate with it again, so the network might well be the issue. How to install lexmark printer drivers on an ibm aix.
How to cancel or delete a stuck print job in windows. General problem solving steps when print jobs hang in aix. In order for this to work, you need to define the backend of. Clear and restart the print spooler with a batch file. If the status is down, try enabling the print queue. Select the queue to remove and press the enter key to remove the queue. It specifies the dev file printer device that should be used.
Converting aix print queues to linux posted on february 26, 2010 by judson bishop i spent the last week working on a project to convert all of the forms printing at the circus from an aix server to a linux server. My aix system queue is disabled automatically brooksnet. We have a zos application that streams data down to our aixbased power7 server. Because the version we are stuck on is not officially supported by the vendor i had to do some reverse engineering to figure out. I was successfully able to print from the lob but the formatting was all screwed up. Printing for fun and profit under aix 5l march 2001 sg24601800 international technical support organization. Used by aix as a sign that the printer is turned on. What is a quick way to determine which of the print queues are remote and which are local.
If the status remains down, try pinging the printer. One laser printer is there connected to a print server hp,which is configured as remote printer from aix server. Verify whether marknetxl and marknetxle are present. The flag that you select for lprflag will depend upon your unix printing subsystem. If the printer responds to pings, but immediately goes down after attempting to enable the printer, try to cancel all jobs on the print queue cancel lp1. Removing print queues and print queue devices is easy in aix. I goto smit printers, stop the print queue, and start it again, run lpstat and then the printer is ready. Aix print queues going down frequently aix print queues going down frequently rc10 technicaluser op 11 aug 03 10. Managing the unix print queue printserving in freebsd. If you need to clear a print queue backlog, you must stop qdaemon and check if the.
Aix printing always prints additional header page aix. I am trying to find a way to print from aix directly to a windows pdf printer. So i installed the lpd service on the windows print server, then on the aix server created a standard remote print queue pointed it to the windows print server and to the printer object there. Hi, is there a way to automatically bring up the printer queue when ever it gets down. The queue is essentially a holding place for files that are to be sent to a. Solaris to aix use this reference to contrast the aix version 4. I want a way to send all the current and future print jobs of a getting fixed printer to another print queue. If the printer still goes down, remove and recreate the aix print queue. How to install lexmark printer drivers on an ibm aix server.
I have about 30 printersprint queues defined and this happens a couple of times a. What works in our systems is to disable the queue, make a copy of the print job, then cancel the queued job. Aix has a very annoying feature where if it cant communicate with the remote printer print server it takes the queue down, but doesnt bother to bring it up when it can communicate with it again, so the network might well be the issue. The first entry contains the clients local queue and local device name and its status information. We have already set the separator pages as none in the print queues default. Once in a while, it is possible for a print job to get stuck and prevent others from printing even though the print queue status shows its status as sending. The developerworks connections platform will officially shut down on march 31, 2020 and content will no longer be available. I would like to set up a printer device queue in aix 4. Sometimes it is only important to check the status of the queues on the server. These options have absolutely no effect on postscript, pdf, hpgl2, or image files. Feb 25, 2011 how to monitor and maintain printing via unix. End user sends a request to print a file using any of the print commands lp,lpr,qprt,enq to the print queue. Printing for fun and profit under aix 5l ibm redbooks.
Printer queuing system status conditions ibm knowledge center. Uses the qconfig file to initialize the printer into the proper format. How to write a batch script on windows if clearing your print queue by restarting the print spooler service is something you think youll be doing more than onceor youd just rather not go through the trouble of using the services appyou can also create a simple batch file to do the job. It seems that for any new printer weve set up, the queue goes down frequently multiple times per day for some of them. I am trying to redirect reports from a software program that are meant to be printed. The default is o outputordernormal for printers that print face down and o. The purpose of this document is to overview the general flow of a print job as it makes its way through the print queue from the time the job is submitted by a user until it gets to its final destination, typically a printer. Converting aix print queues to linux chainringcircus. Creating a print queue in aix using the command line is easy. Adds a subsystem definition to the subsystem object class.
Ibm has provided the commands rmque and rmquedev to handle such a task. Hi when i add a print queue in my aix server i get the below message. Print to windows pdf printer from aix unix and linux forums. Go to show status of the print server subsystem and check if the print server is running. If you normally use a particular printer, you can tell cups to use it by default. The second entry contains the clients local queue name followed by the remote queue name. Aix print queues also go down on outofpaper condition. Type smitty rmpq to remove virtual printer, queues, and print devices in one step. Each queue is made up of a queue stanza and a queue device stanza.
If the printer responds to pings, but immediately goes down after attempting to enable the printer, try to cancel all jobs on the print queue. I need to create a print queue in aix to be able to print directly to pdf or a network based printer from a informix based application generofourj. Aix is able to use remote queues with names longer than 7 characters in length. To check what jobs are queued to print on a printer named ps99, you would enter.
The simplest way to do this is to use smit to setup a remote print queue which ive done on the test environment but the it department have refused to set up a. I run the lpstat command and one of the print queues says down. Clearing a print queue backlog ibm knowledge center. Also when i give a test print the status changes from ready to down. We then resubmit the print job that caused the hang. Once the print jobs coming in from clients are received on the freebsd system and placed in the print spool, they are metered out at a slower rate to the various printers. Viewing only local queue status one frequent problem encountered with remote queue status is the long wait for queues to time out if the remote server is down. Tasks are grouped according to major categories that are listed below. Creating an aix print queue using smit zebra technologies. You must run this command on a hpux system or a sun solaris system prior to running lpadmin. The program calls a list of defined printer queues to choose from for the output.
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