Re: ZEBRA Printing on iSeries again -- MIDRANGE-L

Hi Dan,

There are three criteria needed for the IBM SNMP
driver to work with a print server. They are as
follows:

1. Print server must support SNMP protocol. ZebraNet
does support SNMP. You must then find the defined port
where the print server listens for SNMP traffic. The
message from your IBM host is correct. The target port
at the remote print server you selected was 4201. The
port the IBM host used to allow data to leave the IBM
host was 5094. The TCP protocol does not require hosts
to use identical ports to open a socket connection
between themselves so this setup is fine.

2. The SNMP support of a print server needs to offer a
group named Public. ZebraNet has this group
pre-defined according to the user manual.

3. The print server must allow SNMP data to be written
 into itself. Typically SNMP is used to query a print
server for the printer's condition and to retrieve a
response. For this reason not all print server's allow
SNMP information to be written into themselves for
processing. You will need to ask Zebra technical
support if the SNMP support of the ZebraNet print
server can be configured to accept inbound information
to be printed.  

HTH

Best Regards,

/Paul
--
Paul Tykodi
E-mail: ptykodi@xxxxxxxxx

--- Dan Marian <mdmarian@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi!
> Thanks all for your ressponses about Zebra printing
> on AS/400.
> From printserver utility program, configuration is
> in the 4 attachments:
> When the ZebraNet prinserver address is the same
> with printer address 
> defined on iSeries, no message error received, but
> printer stop after few 
> seconds. I look in the sysopr msg queue and I found
> this error:
> 
> 
> Message ID . . . . . . :   TCP2617
> Date sent  . . . . . . :   10/20/04      Time sent 
> . . . . . . :   12:04:58
> 
> Message . . . . :   TCP/IP connection to remote
> system 10.69.0.231 closed,
>    reason code 2.
> 
> Cause . . . . . :   The TCP/IP connection to remote
> system 10.69.0.231 has
>    been closed. The connection was closed for reason
> code 2.  Full 
> connection
>    details for the closed connection include:
>      - local IP address is 10.69.0.221
>      - local port is 5094
>      - remote IP address is 10.69.0.231
>      - remote port is 4201
> Reason codes and their meanings follow:
>      1 = TCP connection closed due to expiration of
> 10 minute FINWAIT2 
> timer.
>      2 = TCP connection closed due to R2 retry
> threshold being run.
>      3 = TCP connection closed due to keepalive
> timeout.
> If TCPCNNMSG(*THRESHOLD) is defined for the Change
> TCP/IP Attributes 
> (CHGTCPA)
>   command then there could be additional connections
> that have closed within
>   the threshold window. The number of additional TCP
> connections that have
>   closed is 0.
> Recovery  . . . :   Informational message.
> 
> The row port on iSeries printer definition is 4201,
> but in the error I see 
> the 5094 raw port. As I told yestarday, I have tried
> with a lot of raw 
> ports, but no result.
> 
> Any suggestion will be appreciated.
> Dan
> 
> >From: Paul Tykodi <ptykodi@xxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re: ZEBRA Printing on iSeries
> >Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:32:35 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >Hi Dan,
> >
> >SNMP stands for Simple Network Management Protocol.
> It
> >is a network protocol standard frequently used in
> >TCP/IP networks for remotely managing devices
> attached
> >to a network.
> >
> >The ZebraNet print servers do claim to have support
> >for this protocol. In order for the IBM host SNMP
> >print driver to work correctly, you need to find
> out
> >the port in the ZebraNet print server, which
> listens
> >for incoming SNMP information.
> >
> >According to the ZebraNet User Manual, it could be
> >4201. If this doesn't work, I'm sure that Zebra
> >Technical Support could give you the correct port
> >number for receiving SNMP information from the
> >network.
> >
> >HTH
> >
> >Best Regards,
> >
> >/Paul
> >--
> >Paul Tykodi
> >E-mail: ptykodi@xxxxxxxxx
> >
> > > date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:43:01 +0300
> > > from: "Dan Marian" <mdmarian@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > subject: ZEBRA Printing on iSeries
> > >
> > > Hello
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > I have a Zebra 140XiIII with ZebraNet
> Printserver
> > > 10/100MB. I wanted to
> > > install it on AS/400 with the CL command:
> > >
> > > CRTDEVPRT  DEVD(ZEBRA) DEVCLS(*LAN) TYPE(3812)
> > > MODEL(1) +
> > >              LANATTACH(*IP) PORT(5001)
> > > ATTACH(*DIRECT) ONLINE(*YES) +
> > >              FONT(11 *NONE) FORMFEED(*AUTOCUT)
> > > SEPDRAWER(*FILE) +
> > >              PRTERRMSG(*INQ) MSGQ(QSYS/QSYSOPR)
> > > ACTTMR(170) +
> > >              INACTTMR(*SEC15) LINESPEED(19200)
> > > WORDLEN(8) +
> > >              PARITY(*NONE) STOPBITS(1)
> > > TRANSFORM(*YES) +
> > >              MFRTYPMDL(*WSCST) PPRSRC1(*CONT80)
> > > PPRSRC2(*NONE) +
> > >              ENVELOPE(*NONE) ASCII899(*NO)
> > > IMGCFG(*NONE) +
> > >              CHRID(*SYSVAL)
> > > RMTLOCNAME('12.175.0.231') +
> > >              SYSDRVPGM(*IBMSNMPDRV)
> > > PUBLISHINF(*UNKNOWN *UNKNOWN +
> > >              *UNKNOWN *UNKNOWN *BLANK *UNKNOWN)
> > > TEXT('ZEBRA XIII +
> > >              PLUS PRINTER 12.175.0.231')
> > > WSCST(QSYS/QWPDEFAULT)
> > >
> > > I set the same raw port on printserver, but when
> I
> > > try to start the printer
> > > it's stop after few seconds. If I change the raw
> > > port on the printserver and
> > > I start the printer I receive a message that the
> > > port number is not correct.
> > > I tried with many others ports: 9001, 5005, etc.
> and
> > > no result. Anyone who
> > > meet this problem?
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > Dan Marian
> >



                
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