SWITCH - Change the assignment of printers to LTERM partners

The tacpadm SWITCH allows you to change the assignment of LTERM partners and printers. This function is only permitted in standalone UTM applications.

You can:

• assign the LTERM partner for this printer to a different printer, together with the message queue. This new printer then processes the print jobs in the queue sequentially. This enables you, for example, to print output jobs at a different printer if there is a malfunction on the original printer.

• to group printers together to form printer pools. This involves assigning several printers to one LTERM partner. All the printers in the pool will then work together to process the message queue for this LTERM partner. For more information about printer pools, see the openUTM manual “Generating Applications”.

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tacpadm     SWITCH

            ,CID=cid

            ,LTERM=ltermname1

            [ ,CTERM=ltermname ]

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SWITCH	Changes the assignment of printers to LTERM partners
CID=cid	( control- ID )  Printer ID of the printer to which a different LTERM partner is to be assigned.
LTERM=ltermname1
	Name of the LTERM partner to which the printer is to be assigned. For ltermname1 you can only enter an LTERM partner which has been specifically generated for printers and other output media. If a printer has already been assigned to the LTERM partner, this assignment is not terminated. The printers are simply grouped together to form a printer pool.
CTERM=ltermname
	Name of the printer control LTERM to which the printer cid is assigned. If the command is not entered at this printer control LTERM, the user who starts the procedure must have administration privileges. Default:  Name of the LTERM partner at which the command was entered.

Result

openUTM returns a message informing you whether the job has been accepted or rejected.