Determining Your Implementation Strategy; General Transition Guidelines - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Determining Your Implementation Strategy

General Transition Guidelines

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Novell Distributed Print Services Administration Guide
Now that you have done some initial information-gathering, identified the
major issues you will face, and created a diagram of the new eDirectory layout
you want to implement, you can now consider your strategy for implementing
your new or upgraded NDPS system.
If you have not already done so, be sure to read
Novell Distributed Print Services," on page 13
The following topics are discussed in this section:
"General Transition Guidelines" on page 40
"Making the Transition Gradually" on page 41
"Maintaining Your Queues during the Transition" on page 42
"Understanding Your Implementation Options" on page 44
The following guidelines generically apply to any transition scenario and
should expedite your decision process.
NDPS provides simple and reliable configurations for Pure IP
environments. You will need to use a gateway that supports IP like the
Novell gateway or a third-party gateway.
Migrate the server side first, then migrate your end-users gradually. A
sensible approach to deploying NDPS into a system is to first replace the
server components of your legacy printing system with the NDPS server
components. Since the NDPS Manager (NDPSM.NLM) and the Print
Server (PSERVER.NLM) can run simultaneously on a server, this
transition can be accomplished one queue/printer at a time. Users can then
be gradually switched to print directly to NDPS printers instead of
queues.
This transitional configuration would look this way:
Novell
client
NDPS
Queue
Printer Agent
Chapter 1, "Understanding
in the before you proceed.
PA
Printer