Technical data

Setting Event Notification

Advanced Printing Software reports system problems and events through

notification services. Notification services deliver messages by electronic

mail or to the system console.

The notification-profile attribute specifies the events that are

reported as well as the delivery method of the reports. You can specify a

notification-profile attribute for the following objects:

• Spooler

• Supervisor

• Queue

• Physical printer

• Logical printer

• Job

Only administrators can specify a notification-profile attribute for a

server, queue, and printer objects. End users can specify notification profiles

for a job when they submit the job to print.

9.1 Event Notification Server

Notification messages are delivered by a notification server. The notification

server is a daemon that runs on the host where a spooler resides and on

client systems. The notification server, /usr/pd/lib/pdntfs, distributes

notification messages issued by the spooler and supervisor. It is responsible

for sending e-mail messages and displaying messages in the message areas

of the pdprintadmin and pdprintinfo GUIs.

The notification server starts when needed by way of inetd. An entry in the

inetd.conf file is added when the print system is installed.

9.2 Notification Method

The print system delivers notification messages as an e-mail message or an

immediate message to a GUI or the console.

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