System Administration Manager (SAM) Printers and Plotters

The System Administration Manager (SAM) Printers and Plotters functional area is used to manage system and network printers and plotters known to the local system, and to control the flow and priorities of print jobs to system printers and plotters.

Summary of Change

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?

The launch point in X/ObAM-based GUI mode is now via the HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH).

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006?

See “What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?”

Impact

The launch point in X/ObAM-based GUI mode is via HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH).

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

For more information, see the sam(1M) and samlog_viewer(1M) manpages.

Obsolescence

System Administration Manager (SAM) is deprecated in the 11iv3 release of HP-UX. HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH), an enhanced version of SAM, is introduced for managing HP-UX. HP SMH provides Graphical User Interface (GUI), Terminal User Interface (TUI) and Command Line Interface (CLI) for managing HP-UX. You can access these interfaces using the smh command (/usr/sbin/smh). However, you can also use the sam(1M) command which behaves the same as smh(1M) command except that the deprecation message is displayed in the beginning. When you run either sam or smh and if the DISPLAY environment variable is set, HP SMH opens in the default Web browser. If the DISPLAY environment variable is not set, HP SMH opens in the TUI.