Re: LAN Attached printer losing connection

Also the doc Paul provided a link to has a link to (assuming PJL / Paul's
link also has an SNMP verions)
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/644749

Check out the section about Inactivity timer and Activation timer..

Specifically,
Inactivity timer should be set at some value other than *NOMAX so that the
connection will be closed during periods of no activity.

The Activation timer should be set to a value large enough to prevent
posting of intervention errors due to TCP/IP transmission delays and
printer processing delays. The default setting of 170 seconds is usually
large enough to accomplish this unless you send large files to a printer
with a slow processor that has a lot of memory.

Charles

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 8:24 PM Steinmetz, Paul via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Bob,

Check out this IBM knowledge base document.


https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/writers-lan-3812-devds-end-periodically-message-cpa403d

Paul


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Sent: Monday, September 14, 2020 7:03 PM
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Subject: LAN Attached printer losing connection

I'm having an issue with this printer every Monday morning - this is our
most heavily used printer; prints orders all day long. It's an HP M507.
Was an M402 previously, but had these same issues with the old one too.

Here's the issue: On Monday mornings, It will start printing and then
stop with a CPA403D Operator Action required - C or R - when the output
tray is full. Which is normal.

Cancel or Retry are the only options - But you can reply with an R as much
as you like, you keep getting the same message. Or sometimes the writer
will end itself after responding with an R. Every other time you're forced
to answer with a C eventually.

Either way, you're restarting the writer, which then causes the spool to
restart printing at page 1.

There's been a couple of times it's just started printing junk after the
restart and has to be ended/restarted again. Then it will print fine again.

Local LAN attached, but the i is hosted remotely and connected to our
local network with VPN.

Again this only occurs on Monday mornings; it behaves fine the rest of the
week. Every Sunday afternoon, the system goes into restricted state for
BRMS backups.

Monday mornings are the heaviest days so the output bin is almost
guaranteed to get full on the first print of the day.

Spools are being transformed by TLA Forms by TL Ashford, which takes some
processing time since the i is remote, so I've schedule the print for about
an hour before the user is scheduled to arrive.

I at first thought that I was printing the spool before the system went
into restricted state as I had some extra jobs scheduled for printing over
the weekend, so it would make sense it would restart the spool over at page
1. But I have since changed the schedule so that's not it.

I also found the IP time-out setting on the printer itself and upped it
from 5 minutes to 30 minutes - no effect.

Nothing has worked so far. It's strange that the printer will print fine
until the output bin is full, but then not respond properly to the Op
Action required message response. We end up wasting a lot of paper because
of the duplicates.

Anyone have any other ideas I could try?

Thanks

Bob Cagle
IT Manager
Lynk


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