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Find printer IP in SAP printer setup - 4.7

Asked by: Hooligan

Im trying to figure out the IP that was used for a printer setup in SAP.

In other words, I have a network printer with the IP of 10.10.x.x, and I need to see the IP that SAP is using for that printer. Is their a simple way to accomplish this?

Thanks,
   H.

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2006-08-16 at 13:17:01ID21957049
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Answers

 

by: BygbeaPosted on 2006-08-16 at 15:03:17ID: 17330157

Summary

Symptom
After you change the IP address while the system is running, the system no longer recognizes printers because the IP address is buffered internally.

Additional key words

Cause and prerequisites
IP address of a printer was changed while the system was running.

Solution
IP printer addresses are internally buffered in the R/3 system.If the IP address is changed, this is not read again and the system continues trying to access the old address.The change is only activated once the system has been restarted.To avoid the restart, there is a workaround for Release 3.0 or 3.1. Because the network interface operates case sensitive in R/3, but most operating systems ignore the cases for host names, the destination host can be changed around for the printer settings in upper- and lower-case letters.The address is determined again for each change.There are however a few UNIX systems on which the network interface is also case-sensitive.In this case, the name must also be adjusted in /etc/hosts or the DNS.

From release 3.1G there is a function in transaction SM51 for resetting the buffer under the menu option 'Goto -> Host name buffer -> reset.

Source code corrections

Header Data

 
Release Status: Released for Customer
Released on: 12.09.2001  22:00:00
Priority: Recommendations/additional info
Category: Consulting
Primary Component: BC-CCM-PRN Print and Output Management


I hope this helps.

 

by: jonvaughanPosted on 2006-08-16 at 17:46:25ID: 17330874

Use transaction SPAD

You can enter in the Output device name and get the details, you can drill down on the server name to get the "Real Server" name ...

 

by: HooliganPosted on 2006-08-17 at 06:00:33ID: 17333661

Let me try and ask this a different way...

when you set-up a network printer to print from SAP, you use the IP address of that printer, correct?  (I may be wrong about this!)  What I need to do, is find the IP address that is being used by SAP to find that specific printer.  For example, if I want to print something from SAP and I choose NetPrinter_01 as the printer, SAP is going to send that print job to the printer I specified.  I believe it sends it via IP address.  I need to see the IP that SAP is using to send that data to that specific printer.

Thanks,
   -H.

 

by: BygbeaPosted on 2006-08-17 at 11:10:44ID: 17336193

According to the OSS note. The printer information appears to held on the unix print server.  SAP loads the informtion in memory.  Take a look at transaction SPAD.  

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