[Summary]: HP print server software for Solaris 9

[original message at end]

Cool. Several people made it available and posted links. Part of the 
trick is knowing the version numbers so that you can do a search (maybe 
some day we'll have regular expressions for web searches). SOLd621.PKG 
is a slightly older version. SOLe118.PKG is what I was looking for. 
Turns out SOLe134.PKG is actually available still on the HP web site at:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?locale=en_US&pnameOID=18924&taskId=135&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=27351&submit.y=9&submit.x=6&lang=en&cc=us&swEnvOID=1088

I downloaded it from there and then did `pkgadd -d SOLe134.PKG`, which 
gave me everything I was looking for including installing and setting up 
  bootp in inetd.conf.

What some people missed was that there is a lot more to /opt/hpnpl
(HP JetDirect) than just setting up a print queue. It allows me to 
easily configure bootp services for the printers and provide them with 
their configurations through tftp, manage large numbers of printers, 
migrate printers from one server to another, etc. -- all without having 
to do the individual lpadmin commands for every single one of them.

http://www.artwork.com/support/unix/jetadmin_solaris.htm provides some 
information although with the older version (which some people had 
working on Solaris 8).


Thanks to:
    Karl.Rossing@Federated.CA,
    Paul H. Yoshimune <paul@yoshimune.com>,
    David Foster <foster@ncmir.ucsd.edu>,
    Steve Beuttel <scb1@erols.com>
      (who provided the artwork.com link),
    Pete Geenhuizen <pgeenhuizen@carolina.rr.com>,
    Adrian Cole <Adrian.Cole@alphawest.com.au>
      (who provided the HP link to SOLe134.PKG),
    Bruce Kirkland <Bruce_Kirkland@polk.com>
      (who provided the following link on BigAdmin:
       http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/hp_jetadmin.html ),
    David Booth CWT-MSP <DBooth@carlsonwagonlit.com>,
    Girard Henry <ghenry@cmi.univ-mrs.fr>,
    Tom Crummey <tom@ee.ucl.ac.uk>,
    Lawrence N. Wood <LWood@ALLEGROMICRO.com>,
    Aaron Lineberger <alineberger@navcirt.navy.mil>,
    Hutin Bertrand <Bertrand.Hutin@fr.Fujitsu.com>


Several of them are using HP JetDirect on Solaris 9.



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Chris Hoogendyk

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    O__  ---- Systems Administrator
   c/ /'_ --- Biology Department
  (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center
~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst

<hoogendyk@bio.umass.edu>

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: HP print server software for Solaris 9
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:54:09 -0400
From: Chris Hoogendyk <hoogendyk@bio.umass.edu>
To: Sun Managers List <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>

HP discontinued support for Jetadmin and no longer has any of the
downloads available.

I can't locate them on Sun's web site either.

The archives indicate (although postings are a bit old) that Jetadmin
for the slightly older Solaris can be installed on Solaris 9 and the
utilities in /opt/hpnp can be used and work. In particular, they make it
easy to do things like migrating printers and setting up a printer with
a print queue as well as bootp and tftp. This is what I need to do. I
have some really old sun servers (2.6) that have lots of print queues,
and I'm configuring some less old hardware with Solaris 9 that should be
lots better. It's going to be a real pain to migrate if I don't have
tools to do it.

I also saw one posting that indicated that the hpnp stuff was rolled
into Solaris 9, but I can't find it and I can't find any other
references to that piece of information. I've googled lots of links to
Sole118.PKG at hp, but that link no longer exists.

If someone could guide me to a download or tell me that they are on the
Solaris 9 install CDs (9/04) and where, that would be really helpfull.
Or, if someone could put it up for ftp, that would be really really
helpfull.


Thank you,




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Chris Hoogendyk

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    O__  ---- Systems Administrator
   c/ /'_ --- Biology Department
  (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center
~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst

<hoogendyk@bio.umass.edu>

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