Designing Your New System - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Designing Your New System

For guidelines on when and where to enable various brokered services, see
Chapter 6, "Managing the Broker," on page
As a final planning step, before you begin the implementation process, you
should create a written record of all the network resources and components
that will be incorporated into your new printing system (printers, servers,
workstation clients, routers, etc.). Then, you should draw a diagram of how
these components will fit together in your modified eDirectory tree.
The steps to designing your NDPS system are described below:
Make a record of your printing resources.
Write a list that you can refer to as you make a diagram of your eDirectory
tree. This record helps you to include all of the printing resources you
need for your network when you start to create the eDirectory objects.
For example, you might record that you have two printers for one location
on your network. One will be used for everyone in the office, and the
other is used only by the production team. This information can guide you
in creating your diagram.
Create a diagram of the new eDirectory tree.
We recommend that you create a diagram of the printing layout you want
to implement in your new system. The diagram will help you simplify and
reorganize your setup.
The diagram you create can take a variety of forms. Drawing a tree
diagram is the most common. You can also create a list that includes all
the objects that will be in the tree. Or you might prefer to create an
organization chart with responsibilities and resources listed by each
name.
The diagram should be centered on the printers and the NDPS Manager.
(Keep in mind that only one NDPS Manager can be loaded on a server.)
Although there are other items that might be included in the diagram, such
as the NDPS Broker; printer users, managers, and Operators; or printer
configuration information, the printers and the NDPS Manager are all that
is necessary at this stage. Place the printers in the appropriate areas. Place
an NDPS Manager on the server that you want to handle the Printer
Agents that correspond with those printers.
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