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Introduction:
This document will instruct the reader in the correct procedures for adding a printer into
the SAP environent
Purpose:
To ensure that when printers are added they comply with specific JNJ Vision Care
requirements for printer devices to be used for RF enabled devices. That SAP printers are
added following a general naming convention and that printers exist within the SAP
landscape in a consistent fashion without presenting a risk of using a productive printer
from within the non-productive system landscape.
When:
When ever there is a requirement to add a printer into the SAP environent.
Who:
Basis team memeber
Inputs required:
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5.
Result:
A logical printer definition, tested and ready for usage from within SAP.
Where:
All SAP environments.
Action:
Please note that all printers are to be created using the following naming convention:
VISIELI_localqueuename
Where the first three characters denote the corporate entity. (Choices are VIS =
VisionCare, ACC = Accenture)
Where the fourth and fifth characters denote the country. (Example US = United States,
GB= Great Britain, IE = Ireland)
Where the sixth and seventh characters denote the city. (Example LI = Limerick, JA =
Jacksonville, etc.)
Where the eighth character is an under-bar (_).
The remaining characters will be used to describe the local queue name.
Identify which of the three SAP host spool access types. Those types are as follows:
Access type U: Print Using Berkeley Protocol
To be used when printing via a LAN print server (i.e. NT Server)
Use sub-procedure step A
Access type L: Print Locally Using LP/LPR
To be used when printing from SAP to the UNIX operating system and then
subsequently to the device
Use sub-procedure step B
Access type S: Print Using SAP Protocol
To be used when creating a device that will be access via SAPLPD on the local users
PC
Please note that a printer set up with this technique (i.e. LOCL) CANNOT be used
during batch processing.
Use sub-procedure step C
To reallocate/redirect printer in a non-production environment such that it cannot be
inadvertently used during testing efforts
Use sub-procedure step D
Sub Procedure A
1. Login to SAP
2. Execute Transaction spad
3. Click the push button Output devices
10. Provide the printer Model and the location of where the printer is physically
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Sub Procedure B
15. Login to SAP
16. Execute Transaction spad
17. Click the push button Output devices
to view the servers that contain SAP spool processes. Do not use the database
server.
23. Choose the Standard printer Device class.
24. Provide the printer Model and the location of where the printer is physically
Installed
25. Choose the Tab HostSpoolAccMethod and select access method L
26. In the Host printer field insert the name of the queue provided in the end user
request.
Note: make sure that the queue is entered in lower case.
27. Save the printer definition in SAP.
28. Login as SIDadm to the Unix server that was used to define the spooler server in step
#8.
29. Verify that the queue name given in the initial user request has been added to the DNS
server. To do this type the command "nslookup queue_name" at the Unix prompt. If
the queue has been defined the system should display its corresponding IP address as
shown below.
The following steps can be executed on all the application servers that contain
SAP spool processes to provide printer redundancy in case of application server
failure.
31. Click the keyboard down-arrow and highlight the LP Spooler and hit enter.
32. Click the keyboard down-arrow and select Printers and Plotters. Hit enter.
33. You will see a the a screen similar to the one below:
Notice that there are queue types defined as remote and others that are defined as
network. All queues for Hewlet Packard type printers use a Utility called HPJet
Direct. When defining these queues you must define them as networked printers.
34. Hit your keyboards Tab key once. This will highlight the File option at the top of
the screen. Hit the enter key once and use the keyboards right arrow key to move
over to the Actions option.
35. Move the keyboard down arrow to highlight the Add Network-Based
Printer/Plotter. Hit the enter key once. You will see the following window:
36. Hit enter to choose the option Add Printer/Plotter Connected to HP JetDirect.
You will be prompted with the following warning screen. Hit enter to proceed.
37. A second warning screen will prompt you. Choose OK and proceed.
39. Enter the printer name or IP address of the printer. If the printer has been correctly
Defined to the DNS server the HPJet Direct software will plug in the queue name in
the Lp destination (queue) name field.
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Sub Procedure C
Type y and hit enter to continue.
43. At this point your queue has been defined to the Unix server. Type q for quit and hit
Your tab key to highlight the File option. Click your keyboard down arrow to
highlight exit and hit your enter key to exit Sam.
Sub Procedure C
Configure a printers with the following attributes:
SPAD tab/screen Device Attributes for device LOCL
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Sub Procedure D
After a printer(s) has been
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