Ricoh InfoPrint Pro C900AFP InfoPrint Manager - Page 149
Setting up interoperating environments, Understanding interoperating environments
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Chapter 20. Setting up interoperating environments This section describes this interoperating information: v "Understanding interoperating environments" v "Setting up a print environment with multiple Windows servers" on page 133 v "Configuring for interoperability between an InfoPrint AIX server and an InfoPrint Windows server" on page 136 Understanding interoperating environments When you install an InfoPrint Manager server, the install process creates a namespace for that server. The namespace is a directory structure where InfoPrint Manager stores the location information of all of your InfoPrint objects, including the server itself, queues and destinations, and the Access Control Lists (ACLs) used by InfoPrint Manager Security. On a Windows system, the namespace is located by default at \var\pddir, where is the directory that you installed InfoPrint Manager in. If you install a second InfoPrint Manager server on another system on your network, that server will create its own namespace and the two servers will operate entirely independent of each other. In some cases, however, you might want your servers to be able to work together. To make InfoPrint Manager servers work together, you set up an interoperating environment in which two or more InfoPrint Manager servers share the same namespace. The namespace is on one of the servers and the other servers are granted permissions that allow them to use that directory. In InfoPrint Manager for Windows, Version 2, Release 2, you should only set up two or three servers to interoperate (not four or more). Those servers can all be installed on Windows 2000 systems, on Windows 2003 systems, on Windows XP systems, or on a combination of Windows systems. In addition, if you have InfoPrint Manager for AIX, it can be one of the three interoperating servers as well. When configuring InfoPrint Manager servers to support interoperability, make sure that these rules are followed: 1. Each InfoPrint Manager server must be accessible by all other InfoPrint Manager servers using the same IP address. For example, if Server1 is an InfoPrint Manager AIX server with an IP address of 9.99.155.122, then all other InfoPrint Manager servers must use 9.99.155.122 to access Server1. 2. The IP address for each InfoPrint Manager server must be the address that is identified for the first (or primary) network card that is defined to that server. Reasons for setting up an interoperating environment Not every printing system needs multiple InfoPrint servers. In fact, in many environments one InfoPrint server is adequate. However, in print environments that do very high volume printing or that print in remote locations (for example, a main office with branch offices in different parts of the city), interoperating InfoPrint servers can provide important benefits: v Interoperating servers are much more scalable than single servers. 131