ImportHPUXPrinter

This is a simple application to import HP-UX Printer in CUPS Linux Spooler.

Prerequisites

Before you get started, you’ll need to have these things:

• Go language installed on Linux server
• Git installed on Linux server

The repository contains the following files:

• HPUX/CreateListPrinter.sh : script to capture physical and logical printers under HP-UX
• src/SetPrinter.go : source of the go script
• SetPrinter : binary of the go script
• config.json : configuration file of the script
• template.sh: backend template file

Initial setup

Clone the repository :

[archi@mercure] git clone https://github.com/colussim/ImportHPUXPrinter.git

Copy the HPUX directory to the HP-UX server

Setup

You will find 1 configuration files :

config.json : configuration file with the following parameters:

{

    "FilePhysical" : "PhyPrinterList.csv",  Name of the file containing the names and ip addresses of the physical printers
    "FileLogical": "LogPrinterList.csv",    Name of the file containing the names of the logical printers
    "Template":"template.sh",               Name of the template file for the definition of the backends
    "Fprinter":"/usr/lib/cups/backend/",    Directory where the backends are stored
    "Description" :" MAGELLAN-"             Description added when creating the printer 

}

Usage

On HP-UX server run the script :

[root@bandol HPUX]./CreateListPrinter.sh

This script generates two files in csv format:

• PhyPrinterList.csv
• LogPrinterList.csv

Copy these two files into the directory of the Linux server where the repository was cloned.

On Linux server run the script :

[archi@mercure ImportHPUXPrinter]sudo ./SetPrinter

This script reads:

• the PhyPrinterList.csv and LogPrinterList.csv files
• creates the printers backend files
• adds the logical printers if they exist as well as the physical printers