[696] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: Test printers for FSS testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theresa M Regan)
Thu Nov 16 17:00:05 2000
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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:00:00 -0500
To: Rocklyn Clarke <RCLARKE@MIT.EDU>
From: Theresa M Regan <tregan@MIT.EDU>
Cc: r3-admin@MIT.EDU, Enterprise Print Delivery Team <PRINTDEL@MIT.EDU>
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Hi Rocklyn,
With the SAP R/3 upgrade underway... we are currently managing two
separate environments... one development and migration path for v 4.5b
and another fro v 4.6c...
I understand you intend to take a feed from MOIRA to plunder.mit.edu (and,
pillage.mit.edu). Today, when the MOIRA feed arrives on windsurf, several
steps happen:
the printer definitions are created on all of the R/3 application
servers
once the printdef.dat files have been propagated, we are notified
via e-mail to define the output devices in SAP R/3 and test
My question about "windsurf" is related to current process and how we may
be coordinated and informed. I will create the definitions in SF2;
however, I do not know if the spool definitions on the servers exist.
When you have a moment, possibly, we should chat about the related pieces.
Thanks,
Theresa
At 04:01 PM 11/16/2000 -0500, Rocklyn Clarke wrote:
>Hi Theresa,
>
>Thanks! Given that David wants to test from SAP, I believe that we will
>need to have at least the RETIPM queue (if not both) set up in the SAP sf2,
>sf5, sf8 and ps1 environments as well.
>
>Based on what I now understand about n-up printing, we probably do
>not need to have "RETIPM2UP" and "RETIPM2UP2" queues at this time. I would
>still like to have a "RETIPMH" queue (as mentioned in my original email
below)
>however. We will set up "RETIPMH" so that files sent to it will be held on
>plunder.mit.edu for further processing.
>
>I definitely want to consider plunder.mit.edu (and eventually
pillage.mit.edu -
>the backup server) for nightly feeds from Moira to Windsurf. The only
>problem is that I need to modify the software on plunder so that it will
>understand the nightly feeds. This is definitely on my queue. I expect to
>have a conversation soon with Athena Ops to get a copy of the scripts that
>they run on their print servers to receive the Moira feeds. As soon as I
>have completed this step and plunder is ready to take feeds from Moira I will
>let you know.
>
>Rocklyn
>
>-------
>On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 08:35:59 -0500 Theresa Regan said:
>>Hi Rocklyn,
>>
>>RETIPM and RETIPM2 have been created in MOIRA and associated with the print
>>server: plunder.mit.edu and with a little care associated with the
>>hostname ret.mit.edu and that printer's LAN HW ADDR. If last night's
>>processing went smoothly, they should be available now.
>>
>>R3-admin... I am not sure... however, do wish to mention... do we wish
>>to consider "plunder.mit.edu" in the nightly feeds from moira to windsurf?
>>or, will another approach be more desirable for notification in creating
>>the R/3 output device for IPM?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Theresa
>>
>>
>>
>>>>X-Sender: tregan@hesiod
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>>>>Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 06:17:20 -0500
>>>>To: Rocklyn Clarke <RCLARKE@mit.edu>
>>>>From: Theresa M Regan <tregan@MIT.EDU>
>>>>Subject: Re: Test printers for FSS testing (fwd)
>>>>Cc: r3-admin@mit.edu, Enterprise Print Delivery Team <PRINTDEL@mit.edu>
>>>>
>>>>Hi Rocklyn,
>>>>
>>>>After reading this e-mail, I sense, a slight time sensitivity (urgency)
>>>>with the initiating/completing the print queue setups. My schedule will
>>>>not allow me any time today, so, I will be planning to address this
>>>>tomorrow. I do have a several observations/questions... You note the
>>>>following queue requests:
>>>>
>>>> RETIPM a simplex queue
>>>> RETIPM2 a duplex queue
>>>> RETIPMH a simplex queue (files will be held for subsequent
>>>>processing)
>>>> RETIPM2UP a simplex queue (files will be printed 2up and
simplex)
>>>> RETIPM2UP2 a duplex queue (files will be printed 2up and
duplex)
>>>>
>>>>I believe, there are several questions around "what" queues need to be
>>>>set-up in MOIRA vs SAP R/3 and IPM.
>>>>
>>>>Example: When we first tried to direct SAP R/3 duplex print requests to
>>>>the Athena Print queue, Athena had one queue and one of its
characteristics
>>>>was "duplex". I forget how the printcaps look exactly; however, in SAP
>>>>R/3, there are two output definitions. Prior to last year APS server
>>>>upgrades, we defined the duplex output device definitions in SAP R/3
>>>>differently than we do today.
>>>>
>>>>I am wondering... do we need two queues, as we usually do? one for
>>>>simplex; one for duplex and, the other functionality features are
>>>>controlled / driven via the software interfaces?
>>>>
>>>>David is able to print 2up simplex/duplex via the existing Athena print
>>>>queues for some software he uses; however, not SAP R/3 print requests,
>>>>today. 2up may be available via SAP R/3 (today), not sure, it has been
>>>>sometime since we did any research on this question.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Theresa
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>At 11:25 PM 11/1/2000 -0500, Rocklyn Clarke wrote:
>>>> >Hi Theresa,
>>>> >
>>>> >Thanks for taking the time to review this earlier this evening.
Although
>>>> >you have only had our request for a week, David actually asked us for
test
>>>> >queues on the InfoPrint Manager (IPM) server several weeks ago. After I
>>>> >finished speaking with you, I called him to let him know that his
request
>>>> >for test queues was now being worked on. He reminded me of some
>>additional
>>>> >aspects of his request which I had forgotten, but which I will include
>>here.
>>>> >
>>>> >We recognize that there are currently print queues set up in Moira
for the
>>>> >RET printer (18.18.0.203): ret (a simplex queue) and ret0 ( a duplex
>>queue).
>>>> >These queues are managed by FIBER.MIT.EDU.
>>>> >
>>>> >We want to set up 5 additional print queues to be managed by
>>PLUNDER.MIT.EDU
>>>> >(18.92.0.130). I will describe them below using the symbolic name
RETIPM
>>>> >(I understand that you and your staff will determine the actual queue
>>>> names):
>>>> >
>>>> >RETIPM a simplex queue
>>>> >RETIPM2 a duplex queue
>>>> >RETIPMH a simplex queue (files will be held for subsequent
>>>> processing)
>>>> >RETIPM2UP a simplex queue (files will be printed 2up and simplex)
>>>> >RETIPM2UP2 a duplex queue (files will be printed 2up and duplex)
>>>> >
>>>> >We want these queues defined in Moira as well as in the following SAP
>>>> >environments: sf2, sf5, sf8 and ps1.
>>>> >
>>>> >Please let me know if you have any questions about this request.
>>>> >
>>>> >Thanks,
>>>> >Rocklyn
>>>> >
>>>> >
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>>>> >From: "Lynne E. Durland" <durland@MIT.EDU>
>>>> >Subject: Test printers for FSS testing
>>>> >Cc: printdel@MIT.EDU, debbie@MIT.EDU, msprague@MIT.EDU, davidsoa@MIT.EDU
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>>>> >Greetings,
>>>> >
>>>> >I am writing to request two printers be set up in the sf2, sf5, sf8 and
>>ps1
>>>> >environments.
>>>> >
>>>> >These printers will be used by FSS for testing of printing through IPM.
>>>> >
>>>> >The printer names we would like set up are:
>>>> >
>>>> >RET1
>>>> >RET2
>>>> >
>>>> >Thank you,
>>>> >
>>>> >Lynne
>>>> >
>>>> >Lynne E. Durland
>>>> >Information Systems
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>>>> >everything.....or nothing."
>>>> >
>>>> > Lady
>>Nancy
>>>> >Astor
>>>> >
>>>
>
