[cups.general] Fail-over setup questions

Brian Kroth bpkroth at gmail.com
Tue Sep 21 18:21:28 PDT 2010


Niels S. Eliasen <nse at delfi-konsult.com> 2010-09-21 01:11:
> hi guys
> having setup two RedHat servers for a fault tolerant CUPS setup
> 
> setup is as follows:
> all queues will defined on both boxes, but with suffix "_1" for box 1 and
> suffix "_2" for box 2, and then define classes on both systems that have
> identical names and consist of "queuename_1" and "queuename_2"
> 
> found this suggestion on the net from some IBM paper....
> (if anyone have any better suggestions I'm positive to all suggestions...)
> 
> Furthermore this will further complicated by the fact that it would be nice 
> to have fail-over capability from Singapore to Dubai to Houston ... etc etc
> more than 5 regional centers will be used...
> 
> I have a few questions:
> 
> 1. How can it be that on box1 all queues on box2 appears as "queuename at box2",
> but on box2 all queues appear as "queuename at 172.17.xxx.xxx" ??
> 2. How can it be that I get all the queues from box1 gets written to the 
> printers.conf on box2 as "queuename@" ?

You might want to look at this option in cupsd.conf:
BrowseShortNames

Brian
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