[1886] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: EP1 move coordination
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bil Huxley)
Tue Nov 6 17:47:14 2001
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Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 17:47:23 -0500
To: "Lynne E. Durland" <durland@MIT.EDU>, CAOTEch@MIT.EDU
From: Bil Huxley <huxley@MIT.EDU>
Cc: printdel@MIT.EDU
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Hi Lynne,
The "Institute & Enterprise Reporting Group" (Gill Emmon's group which is
more popularly know as CAO-Reporting here abouts) have not been set up with
KLP (nor KfW 2.1 upgrades) yet but we should be able to achieve that over
the next couple of weeks. Let's just say by Thanksgiving :)
If we set up the EP1 queue with "Enable Hesiod lookup of server" won't that
facilitate a subsequent transition from APS to IPM to the point of making
it transparent to the desktop? Ah, I see that you don't believe it will
check Hesiod but once. In that case the queue would have to be 'edited'
after Hesiod is updated for IPM to force it to redo the lookup?
You should write to caotech@mit.edu to coordinate or discuss alternatives.
We'll plan to start these upgrades/installs soon, so let us know if more
consideration is needed before we commence.
Are there any other CAO (or non-CAO) groups which will require EP1
attention prior to a transfer from APS to IPM?
FYI,
Bil
At 10/31/2001 12:11 PM -0500, Lynne E. Durland wrote:
>Greetings Bil and Chris,
>
>With apologies for the delays since our meeting over the summer. I think
>we are close to being ready to test and move EP1 from Athena to IPM.
>
>Bil the question you asked at the end of the meeting about the EP12 queue
>was a good one and took us a while to figure out. We think we now have
>the answer and are getting ready to test it this week.
>
>I am writing to ask how you folks would like to coordinate the efforts of
>the move?
>
>My recollection is that there are several steps that need to happen, and
>that some of them can happen independently and others need to be
>coordinated between our two groups.
>The steps are:
>
>Installation of KLPR/KLP on the end user machines
>Repoint the hesiod entries from APS to IPM
>Set up the EP1 queues on the end user machines.
>
>On Macintosh the set up can occur at time of installation as the mac
>version checks hesiod every time it prints, but the windows only checks
>hesiod at time of queue set up.
>
>There is the potential for interruption of service to the printer when the
>change is made, although it is not as long as it used to be.
>
>How would you like to proceed? Who should be the contact/coordination
>person on the CAO side of the house?
>
>Please let me know,
>
>Thanks
>
>Lynne
>
>Lynne E. Durland
>Information Systems
>Database Services
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>
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>for us."
>
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