To Configure Printers in a JES Region Startup File

Printers may be defined in the region startup file to ensure that they are immediately available once the region has been started. If printers are not defined in the region startup file, they can be defined once the region has been started, using the Enterprise Server for .NET Administration UI's Printers view, or from the command-line using either the seeout or casout utilities. This procedure demonstrates how to define printers in a JES region startup file, using the Enterprise Server for .NET Administration UI:
  1. Open the startup file of the JES region you are configuring, with the Region Startup File editor. See To Edit a JES Regions Configuration.
  2. In the Results pane, expand the Region node and select the Printers node. See 1 in the diagram below. A window is displayed showing the printers already configured for the region.

  3. The properties of an existing printer can be modified by expanding the Printers node, selecting the printer to be modified, and changing the properties in the displayed Properties window. See 2 in the diagram below.

  4. To define a new printer, right-click the Printers node and select Add... from the context menu. See 3 in the diagram below.

    The Add New JES Printer dialog is displayed.
  5. Enter the name of the new printer, the job classes associated with the printer and a description of the printer in the Printer name, Classes and Description entry fields respectively. The browse button at the end of the Printer name entry field can be used to browse and select an installed printer as an alternative to your entering the name by hand (see 4 in the diagram below). Select Enabled if you want the printer to be enabled to print job output when the region starts. If not selected, the printer will be unavailable to print job output until it is enabled using the seeout command-line utility or from the Printers view of the Enterprise Server for .NET Administration UI.

    If you do not require output associated with this printer to be processed on a specific machine, or a network load-balanced set of machines, click OK to dismiss the dialog and move to step 7. Otherwise click the Advanced tab. See 5 in the diagram below.

    The Advanced tab is displayed.
  6. By selecting SEP node affinity you can now specify the URI of a machine, or a network load balanced set of machines, on which outputs associated with this printer are to be printed. Enter the name of the machine/node in the Host entry field. The full URI is displayed in the URI entry field. The full URI only needs to be entered if a non-standard URI is being used in the scale-out.

    Reasons to restrict the printing of outputs to a specific machine, or set of machines, include:
    • The associated physical printer may not be available to all machines
    • The outputs need to be printed from machines in specific geographic areas
    Click OK to dismiss the dialog and create the printer.
  7. The new printer is now listed under the Printers node. See 6 in the diagram below. To modify the properties of the printer just created, select it and change the properties in the displayed Properties window.
  8. Once all changes have been made, choose File > Save, or click the Save icon in the toolbar to save the file. See 7 in the diagram below.

You must cold-start the region for the changes to take effect.

Parent topic: JES Region Configuration
Related tasks
To Edit a Region Startup File Associated with a JES Region
To Create a JES Region Startup File
To Edit a Region Startup File Associated with a JES Region
Related reference
seeout: administer an Enterprise Server for .NET JES region
casout: administer a batch job or JES region