[156] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: Your mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jeffbant@us.ibm.com)
Thu Mar 30 09:52:19 2000
From: jeffbant@us.ibm.com
To: "Rocklyn E. Clarke" <RCLARKE@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: printdel@MIT.EDU, pmuolo@us.ibm.com
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 07:51:56 -0700
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My responses are in the enclosed note. jb
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
"Rocklyn E. Clarke" <RCLARKE@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> on 03/29/2000 11:48:23 PM
To: Jeff Banta/Waltham/Contr/IBM@IBMUS
cc: Enterprise Print Delivery Team <PRINTDEL@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Your mail
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 because
a) only an MCA channel card will work with the 3827?
Only an MCA channel card will work with IPM on AIX.
b) any channel card will work with the 3827, but only MCA channel cards
are available for RS/6000s?
The 3827 will communicate on any 370 channel I would guess. However, IPM
only works with a MCA channel card on AIX. (Note IPM/NT uses a different
channel card. Price is also issue. 370 channel card on AIX=$3k and on
NT=$5995.)
P.S. I actually think there is another channel card available from IBM and
maybe others from other vendors as well for AIX...but, IPM only works with
the MCA channel card. IPM's predecessor, PSF for AIX had the same
restriction.
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?
My earlier response to you was a core dump of my knowledge on 6400s. I will
get our IT Specialist to respond to this as he has primary support for
these devices. Can you provide me a list of the impact printers you use
today?
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 incorporating support for this component into IPM
also.
Would this be acceptable to IBM?
I Will forward this to Boulder development for their response.
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?
On the CDE bar at the bottom of the screen there is an file cabinet drawer
on the right. When you click on it it displays applications. (This is how
you start IPM Administration, etc.) If you scroll down in that window
you'll find Netscape...double click!
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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's to yours. jb
>
>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
>
>
