Environments in Lasernet Developer

An “environment” is a running Lasernet service instance. A Lasernet system can consist of multiple distinct environments that run independently and each have a specified role. For example, Development, Test, and Production environments.

You can use Lasernet Developer to deploy Lasernet configurations to Lasernet environments.

Environments in Lasernet Developer

After you load a configuration into Lasernet Developer, the environments that you can deploy the configuration to are listed in the Environments pane.

You can add environments to this list.

Master Environment

When you create a new configuration, Lasernet Developer automatically creates a Master environment. All the environments that you add to the configuration will inherit the modules and other items that you add for Master.

This makes it easier to share settings between multiple environments, because you can add shared items to Master and place only the items that need to differ between environments under the corresponding environment.

Managing Environments

To show the list of environments, click Environments in the Tools pane (see 1 in the image below).



To add an environment to the configuration, click Add (2) in the toolbar.

To modify an existing environment in the list, select it then click Edit (3) in the toolbar. A Properties window for the environment opens.

The following properties are available:

To add the new environment to the configuration, or save your changes to an existing environment, click Ok.

Printers

Any printer input port added to the Lasernet configuration is added as a Lasernet Printer Port in the Windows Spooler System by default, when deploying a configuration to a Lasernet environment.

The server running the Lasernet environment will automatically create the actual printer queues in Windows and connect them to the respective printer port if a Master input printer is defined and Create input printers in Windows on startup is activated in the Printers tab.

This feature ensures that any Lasernet input printer that is added to the configuration is always available on the Windows printer server. If a user makes breaking changes to the Windows printer queues by mistake, Lasernet is able to synchronize and reconfigure the settings, as defined for the master input printer.

This feature is also useful if Lasernet contains a large list of printer input ports. You only have to manually create the master input printer in the Windows printer environment, with the required settings for the type of printer driver, paper format, share settings, and so on. During service startup, Lasernet will then automatically create a Windows printer queue for any of your listed printer input ports in the configuration and apply the configured settings from the master printer.

Note

The device settings configured in the printer queue settings will not be synchronized as they are not a part of the basic printer device mode settings.