Managing printers

Once a printer has been properly installed, it is added to the system by the combined actions of SA and SO users. The SO user adds the printer to the system and the SA user establishes the printer's SL range. An ISSO user has the authority to perform both of these tasks.

The printer's SL range must not be established until the printer has been added to the system. Use the smit command to manage printers.

MAC access to a printer is determined by the SL of the process that is printing the file. This SL appears on the banner, header/footer, and trailer pages. The process using the lp command must have MAC, MIC, and DAC access to the file that is being printed. Otherwise, the lp command does not generate a print request.

When a printer is removed from the system, the printer profile should be immediately deleted from the system. This can only be done by a user with the SO authorization.