Where To Place Ndps Brokers - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Where to Place NDPS Brokers

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Novell Distributed Print Services Administration Guide
Automatic printer driver download from a central repository
Plug-and-print printer availability
Availability of network resources to applications through a common
interface
For more information about other brokered services, see the following:
"Understanding the Service Registry Service" on page 28
"Understanding the Event Notification Service" on page 29
Although the distribution of your Brokers is not really a critical issue initially,
you will probably want to give some thought to this issue as you do your
preliminary planning. You will not need to create a Broker on all of your
servers, but you will want your Brokers sufficiently well distributed so that
your brokered services (Service Registry Service, Event Notification Service,
and Resource Management Service) will be readily available on the system
when needed. When possible, you should run the Broker on the same server
as the NDPS Manager.
As you gain experience with your new system, you might want to add or delete
Brokers to optimize the efficiency of your system or to store your brokered
resources (maintained in the Resource Management database) where you want
them.
Given Novell's minimum design requirements, at least one Broker object
should be created at each physical WAN location. To clarify this statement,
let's take a quick look at the three services offered by the Broker object:
Service Registry Service (SRS), Event Notification Service (ENS), and
Resource Management Service (RMS). These services are transparent to end
users, administrators must be aware of them and understand how they affect
printing, LAN traffic, and the minimum implementation requirements needed.
Service Registry Service: The Service Registry Service allows public access
printers to advertise themselves so that end users can find them. This service
maintains information about device type, device name, device address, and
device-specific information such as the printer manufacturer and model
number. For more information, see
Service" on page 28.
The following table summarizes the issues and recommendations regarding
SRS.
"Understanding the Service Registry