Title: Printers again

Hi Gang,
I see on the list that printers and device monitors are the hot topic again.

Well, I have a problem with that too.

Our colour printer is connected to the parallel port of the AP.
If I look at SMDH, the printer shows: On line, Not failed.

Yet, a freshly generated cs_dm.current shows:
STATION:  "C0AP01": STATE: OPERATIVE TYPE: AP 50/51
   Device: 1    ----- NOT CONFIGURED ----
   Device: 2  "  LP14" TYPE: PRINTER  STATUS: FAIL PR  NONE

If I run "lpc stat LP14" on the host(C0AP01), it shows:
LP14:
        queueing is enabled
        printing is enabled
        no entries

If I run "lpc stat LP14" on any of the WPs, it shows:
LP14:
        queueing is disabled
        printing is disabled
        no entries

As a result of this the operators are unable to do screen dumps.
If I run "lpc up all" on any of the WPs, printing on LP14 is restored but only for a short period of time.
Before the day is over, I get a complaint from the operators that the printer is no longer working.

It looks to me that the device monitor is having its nickers in a twist and telling all the workstations at a very regular interval, that LP14 is failed.

How can I make DEV_MON to reflect the correct status of LP14???

Cheers,

Frits Schouten
Process Computing Department

B New Zealand Steel
Phone:   +64 +9 375 8111 ext 5261
Email:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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