Environment

iPrint on Open Enterprise Server 2018 SP3
iPrint on Open Enterprise Server 2023
iPrint Appliance 4.X
iPrint Appliance 5.X
 

Situation

Migrating mass printers from one iPrintManager to Another
 

Resolution

Note: Before you attempt to migrate printers, the printer has to have a printer driver at the source server
You can verify by using URL : //hostname or IP/PsmStatus/PAStatus/printer_name
     Or terminal/ssh

#cd /var/opt/novell/iprint/resdir/driver_windows-nt-6.2_x86-64_en

To list the drivers
#ll   

Step 1: At the source server copy all drivers to the destination server.

• scp -Cr resdir/*  hostname_or_IP:/var/opt/novell/resdir
• type “yes”
• Authenticate using the root password of the destination server.

Step 2: On the destination server

• Verify if drivers are available.

• Change ownership from root to iprint: chown -R iprint.iprint resdir/

• Restart the driver store.

 # rcnovell-idsd restart

Step 3: get the printer configuration "padbtxt.xml:" at the source and destination server to your workstation PC, you can use WinSCP or vi
Location of padbtxt.xml:  “vastorage/iprint/var/opt/novell/iprint/print_manager.iPrintAppliance.psm”
 Note: remember to rename so you cannot mix.
 

• Open both padbtxt.xml and copy the printers’ section from source to destination.

       

Note: if you are not familiar with .xml after modification you can open destination padbtxt_x in the browser and see if there is any error that comes in.

• Take back modified padbtxt file to destination server if you modified it at your workstation pc preferable in /tmp
• At destination server:

1. Change the directory to directory where you saved you file 
2. Stop print manager:   rcnovell-ipsmd stop
3. run the following command: /opt/novell/iprint/bin/ipsmd -x padtxt-kwb9.xml -u cn=admin,o=novell;novel-ipsmd start     # replace padtxt-kwb9.xml,cn=admin,o=novell with your xml file, cn and o.
4. Authenticate using iprint administrator password:

             

Step 4: Go to Psmstatus URL "“//hostname or IP/PsmStatus/ ” and hit refresh you will see a new migrated printer

1. click on Advanced.
2. go to generate reports.
3. click on the driver you use.
4. click generate report, you will see printers with their associated driver.

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