Microplex M204, Installation And Configuration Manual

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122 USING THE M204’S ADDITIONAL OPTIONS: General Options
an AppleTalk setup, you probably don’t want every destination appearing in the
Chooser. Please see set dest on page 94 and Removing Excess Printers from the
Chooser on page 65 for further details.
Making An Alternate Print Destination
If more than one printer is attached to the M204, you can make the best use out of
each one with load-balancing. Normally, you would print to one destination on the
unit and your print jobs would go to that printer only. This can be a waste of users’
time if more than one printer is attached; one of the attached printers could be sitting
idle while another is being overloaded with print jobs. Setting an alternate destination
overcomes this by keeping all printers busy. Also, if the specified printer goes off-line
or into error mode, the job will be printed by the alternate printer.
Please see set dest on page 94 for details on how to set up an alternate destination so
your print jobs can get re-routed to an alternate printer.
Capturing Printer Feedback
One of the key aspects of maintaining a computing environment is monitoring printer
status and logging this information to useful places. The M204 allows just that
through logpaths or through a backchannel method. In addition, the Print Server’s lp
command provides parallel port printer status and job information as a user sends a
job.
Logpath Method
The easiest and most reliable method is to utilize the many logpath options available
on the Print Server. These include logging printer feedback to:
• a particular user’s email address through SMTP,
• SYSLOGD on a particular TCP/IP host,
• a TCP port number in the range of 1,024 to 65,000 to which you can telnet to,
• another I/O port where a printer or terminal is attached to display the information.
To configure any of these logpath options, please see set logpath on page 95.
I/O ports and SYSLOGD can be used to capture M204 debugging information as well
as printer logging. Please see set sysinfo on page 101 for more details.
Note