Infoprint Manager Notifications README
Infoprint Manager Notifications is an application that you can use to receive messages about Infoprint objects, such as print jobs that you submit to Infoprint Manager, or destinations, queues, and servers that you manage. For example, Infoprint Manager can send you a message when a job you submit is finished printing so you know that you can pick it up, or it can let you know that there is something wrong with the printer and no jobs can be printed until someone resolves the problem.
The Infoprint Manager notifications server and notifications client software are both automatically installed on the system that your Infoprint Manager server software runs on. In addition, you can install the notifications client on any other Windows or AIX system that is network-connected. Follow the procedures in this chapter if you want to install and use the Infoprint Manager Notifications client to receive messages from your Infoprint Manager server.
For Infoprint Manager Notifications to work, one and only one Infoprint Manager Notification server must be running in your Infoprint Manager cell. ( For information about handling the Notification server in multiple server Infoprint Manager environments, see Multi-server environments). Both Infoprint Manager for AIX and Infoprint Manager for Windows should automatically start a Notification server on port 8200, but you should verify it is running. Each Notification client defaults to receive notifications from server notification on port 8200.
If you ask the site network administrator to add notification as an alias for the hostname of the Infoprint server running the notification server to the site's Domain Name System (DNS) nameserver, the default settings in all the Notification clients work. If you ever move the Notification server to another host, you only need to update the notification alias in the DNS server for the default settings in all the Notification clients to work.
If you do not use a DNS server alias, you need to set up each Notification client to point to the hostname of the Infoprint server running the Notification server.
For the Infoprint Manager Notification client to receive notification messages from the Infoprint Notifications server, the delivery address setting in the Notification client must match the delivery address in the notification profile of the Infoprint Manager destination, job, or other object. Refer to ''Using Infoprint Manager Notifications'' in Infoprint Manager for Windows: Procedures, for information about setting up notification profiles.
|Infoprint Manager Notifications requires the IBM Runtime Environment |for Windows, Java 2, Version 1.3.1, Build level |cn131-20020710. This is the only supported Runtime Environment |for running Infoprint Manager Notifications.
To verify that you have the correct version of the Runtime Environment installed, follow these steps:
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If necessary, follow these steps to install the required Runtime Environment:
When the installation is complete, verify that you have the correct version of the Runtime Environment installed:
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Follow these steps to install the Infoprint Manager Notifications software on a remote system.
To launch Infoprint Manager Notifications, click Start-->Programs-->Infoprint Manager Notifications to run the software.
The first time you start the program, it needs to connect to the notification server on the machine that your Infoprint Manager server runs on. If it does not succeed, the Notification Client Properties dialog will be displayed. Check to see if the notification server hostname and port number match the ones that your Notification server is using. If they do not, change them and click OK. If you need further assistance with the dialog, click Help to see the online help.
In order to receive messages, you must have Infoprint Manager Notifications not only installed, but running on your workstation. On both Windows and AIX systems, you can minimize the notification window if you do not want it open on your desktop. You will have to restore it when you want to check the messages that have arrived.
You will receive certain messages without having to do anything else; for example, messages about print jobs you have submitted (including messages about the printers you send your jobs to) will come to you by default. Most of the messages you receive about jobs provide reasons for a job not printing. If you receive one of them, you can either resend the job or attempt to resolve the problem.
If you need to receive messages about other objects (for example, about printers that you manage), you can change the notification profile for those objects. The delivery address in your Infoprint Notifications Settings window must match the delivery address specified in one of the values of the notification profile of the object for which you want to receive messages. For more information about using Notifications, see "Using Infoprint Manager notifications" in .
While the notification server defaults to starting automatically, you may have reason to stop and then start it on your own. For example, if you have installed multiple Infoprint servers, only one notification server (for each cell) should be enabled. To stop the server on an Infoprint Windows server, access the Management Console and select File -> Stop Server. To stop or disable the server on an Infoprint AIX server, access the SMIT interface and take the following path: Infoprint Printing System -> Infoprint Utilities -> Notification Daemon -> Stop. You can also stop and start the notification (notifyd) daemon from the command line on the AIX server by using the stopnotd and the startnotd utilities, respectively. For more information about these commands, see Infoprint Manager: Reference.
To uninstall Infoprint Manager Notifications, follow these steps: