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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rocklyn E. Clarke)
Wed Mar 29 23:55:25 2000
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 00 23:48:23 EST
From: "Rocklyn E. Clarke" <RCLARKE@mitvma.mit.edu>
To: Jeff Banta <jeffbant@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Enterprise Print Delivery Team <PRINTDEL@MIT.EDU>
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Hi Jeff,
No, I haven't looked at the web interface yet. I have reviewed some of your
presentation with Mike Whitson. We are still poking our way through things.
In the mean time, I have some questions:
1. As I understand it, our 3827 printer cannot participate in the IPM world
unless it is channel attached - a TCP/IP connection is not an option for
this printer. I further recall that to channel attach it to an IPM server
under AIX, we need an RS/6000 with a channel card. This constrains us
to use an older model RS/6000 (the microchannel kind) with an MCA channel
card. Is this bacause
a) only an MCA channel card will work with the 3827?
b) any channel card will work with the 3827, but only MCA channel cards
are available for RS/6000s?
c) none of the above?
2. What are our options for network attached impact printers? In an earlier
email you mentioned the 6400s, saying that they were TCP/IP addressable
and supported by IPM. Can you tell us more about these (i.e. price and
options, etc.). How would our operations be affected by using them to
replace our impact printers?
3. We appreciate the fact that IBM is willing to consider modifying IPM to
support our Kerberos implementation. There is another component of our
IT infrastructure used for authorizations - our Roles Database. We would
be interested in incorporatiing support for this component into IPM also.
Would this be acceptable to IBM?
Mike and I will do some more exploring with the IPM server later today. I
will keep you posted on our progress.
Rocklyn
P.S. I've forgotten how to get to the web interface. Can you refresh my
memory?
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On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 07:57:12 -0700 you said:
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>Question...did you get the IPM Web interface operating? It might be as
>simple as changing the proxy statemnet from IBM to yours. jb
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>Jeff Banta
>IBM Printing Systems Co.
>404 Wyman St.
>Waltham, Ma. 02454
>8-362-2295 / 781-895-2295
>mobile 617-513-5400
>internet jeffbant@us.ibm.com
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