Providing Load Balancing And Failover For Forms Merge Jobs Using Om Plus; Sending Test Jobs - Lexmark C792 Administrator's Manual

Administration of Lexmark Document Producer
Providing load balancing and failover for forms merge jobs
using OM Plus
If you have multiple servers in your LDD system, then you can use OM Plus for load balancing and failover. OM Plus is
advanced print management software available from Plus Technologies.
1
Click the E‑Forms tab.
2
Do the following on a computer connected to the LDD system:
a
Use OM Plus Define Destination to create an OM Plus destination for the forms printer on each server, using
the IP address of each server and the port number of the forms printer for the destination device. Select termserv
as the destination mode for each destination.
b
Use OM Plus Dynamic Class Maintenance to create a dynamic class that includes all the newly created
destinations.
c
In the Printers folder, create an input queue. For more information, see "Creating input queues for forms
printers" on page 32.
d
Use Link Windows Printer & OM Plus to create a link between the input queue and the OM Plus dynamic class
that includes the input destinations.
3
If you are using the Print action for the forms printer, and you want to load balance multiple output printers using
OM Plus, then follow these steps on each server computer:
a
Use OM Plus Define Destination to create an OM Plus destination for each output printer. Select netprint as
the destination mode for each destination.
b
Use OM Plus Dynamic Class Maintenance to create a dynamic class that includes all the newly created
destinations.
c
Use Link Windows Printer & OM Plus to create a link between the existing output queue and the OM Plus
dynamic class that includes the output destinations.

Sending test jobs

Any text editor that adds characters to a generic text print job, such as Notepad, cannot be used to send data to a
virtual forms printer. You can use the Java application SpoolIt to send test jobs without any modification.
1
Make sure the Java Resource Environment (JRE) is installed. For downloads or more information, go to
www.java.com.
2
Extract SpoolIt.zip into the folder C:\spoolit\.
3
Open SpoolIt.properties in a text editor, and then change these settings as necessary:
a
Set printer to the name of the print queue.
For example: printer=my Local Queue or printer=\\myServer\my Remote Queue
b
Set numJobs to the number of times the input file should be sent.
c
Set dataFile to the path and file name of the input file. Each backslash (\) must be succeeded by a second
backslash.
For example: dataFile=C:\\myTestFolder\\myTestFile.txt
4
Save and close the file.
5
Run spoolit.bat.
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