Enabling And Disabling Brokered Services - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Enabling and Disabling Brokered Services

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Specify the ENM filename for the notification method you want to load.
This ENM must be in your server\SYS:SYSTEM directory or in another
location in your server's search path in order to be loaded.
The Broker object will load this notification method automatically in the
future.
When NDPS is initially installed, the three network services provided by the
NDPS Broker are automatically enabled on the Broker object. As your
printing needs grow or change and you add additional Brokers to your
network, you might want to disable certain services provided through a Broker
on a specific server and allow them to be provided through a different Broker
(to save disk space on the first server, for example), or you might want to
enable services on a Broker that are currently disabled. This procedure
explains how these tasks are performed.
1
In NetWare Administrator, select the Broker object you want to work
with.
2
Click the button for the service you want to enable or disable.
3
At the Service Status line, select either Enable or Disable.
The service is now either enabled or disabled. If disabled, services will
need to be provided by a different Broker.
Printer Agents using the services that were disabled will automatically
search for another Broker on the network that will provide these services,
so normally these printers should continue to be available for processing
jobs.
However, if you want to specify a preferred Broker for a Printer Agent to
use for these services, you must do this from each NDPS printer's Printer
Control page in NetWare Administrator by selecting Features/Services.
If a Broker is unloaded and then is brought back up, Printer Agents that
have designated that Broker as their preferred service provider will not be
automatically reconnected to it. In order to reconnect to the preferred
service provider, you must either unload each Printer Agent and bring it
back up, or unload the NDPS Manager that controls the affected Printer
Agents and bring it back up, thus bringing up all the Printer Agents with
it.