Disable load balancing

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Tue Feb 19 05:38:24 PST 2008


Giovanni Montagni wrote:
> Hi,
> I setup two servers who contain the same list of printers (i copied configuration from first server to the second).
> According to the documentation, clients (all with implicit classes on) "will alternate between servers and automatically stop sending jobs to a server if it goes down, providing a load-balancing effect and fail-safe operation with automatic switchover".
> 
> We have some print that needs to be printed in a certain order (so we don't need to order them manually).
> 
> The load-balancing feature cause some job to go through one server and some job to go through the second server and then exit to the printer in the wrong order.
> 
> There's a way to disable load-balancing feature but maintain the automatic switchover feature? We need it so if a server goes down (i.e. for maintenance) the user can print.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Giovanni

The easiest way is to print the files to be ordered as one print job.

Helge

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