Assigning Output Devices to Other Spool Servers

Use

You want to change the server assignment for multiple output devices, because, for example, the previous spool server has failed and you have not specified an alternative server or activated load balancing.

Procedure

There are different methods to assign output devices to other spool servers, depending on whether you have defined logical servers or not:

· You have defined a logical server between the output devices and the real spool server, that is, a logical server is specified as the spool server in the device definitions of the output devices.

Somewhere in the hierarchy, this logical spool server points to a real spool server that performs the output formatting. If this real server fails, you only need to edit the definition of the logical spool server. You must enter a different real spool server in the Mapping field of the server definition. You do not need to change the device definitions of the individual output devices of the individual output devices, as they do not point to the real server that you are changing, but only to the logical server.

You have assigned the production printers Prod1 and Prod2 to the logical spool server Log_Prod, which is classified as a production server. The logical production server Log_Prod points in turn to the real server twdf5001_DEV_00.

If the real server twdf5001_DEV_00 fails and you want to assign the production printers Prod1 and Prod2 to the real spool server twdf5000_DEV_00, you only need to change the mapping information in the definition of the logical server. It must point to the current real spool server twdf5000_DEV_00. As the logical production server is specified in the device definitions of the individual output devices, you do not need to change anything in these definitions.

· You have not defined logical servers in your system. In this case, you can change the server assignment for all output devices whose names match a certain pattern (such as PRI*).

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a. In Transaction SPAD, choose Utilities ® For Output Devices ® Assign Server.

b. On the next screen, enter the desired pattern for the output devices, as well as the name of the old spool server assigned and the name of the new spool server to which you want to assign the devices.

c. Choose Display List, then Convert to switch spool servers.

Result

You have changed the server assignment for some or all of your output devices. If output requests still exist for the affected devices, for which processing is not yet complete, processing of the requests is transferred to the new spool server.