Preparing to create additional servers in a distributed environment
If you are configuring for a distributed environment and need to define many instances of the InfoPrint server process on the same machine, use the fstshow command to see what intercommunication ports are available on your server.
For example, entering fstshow —o on a command line produces a display similar to the contents of this table:
################################################# # IN-USE? PORT# PID DIR-ID NAME # Y 2050 23266 2 server1 # Y 2051 24272 0 notifyd # N 2052 99 # N 2053 99 # N 2054 99 # N 2055 99 # N 2056 99 # N 2057 99 # N 2058 99 # N 2059 99 #################################################
Once you have a list of the server intercommunication ports that are either in use
or available (2050 through 2059 in the display above), you can see if you have enough ports to start more InfoPrint
Manager server processes. If not, you can use the pdinitports utility to initialize a larger range of port numbers for interprocess communication.
Note that InfoPrint Manager processes, such as notifyd and the SAP callback daemons also use server intercommunication ports.
Because InfoPrint defaults to reserving only 10 ports, to define more than 10 server processes, you must use the pdinitports utility to initialize more than 10 ports. For example, to initialize InfoPrint to use the server interprocess communication ports 2050 through 2069 for twenty server processes, enter this at the command line:
pdinitports 2050 2069For a complete description of the pdinitports utility, see RICOH InfoPrint Manager: Reference. Once you have completed this process, you can begin Creating additional servers or starting existing servers.