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Creating and Managing Servers

This chapter describes how to create and manage Advanced Printing

Software spoolers and supervisors. The chapter is divided into the following

sections:

• Creating Servers (Section 5.1) – Describes the steps you need to perform

to create servers for your print system.

• Configuring Server Object Attributes (Section 5.2) – Describes the

attributes that can be set on the servers.

• Configuring Servers in a TruCluster Environment (Section 5.3) –

Describes how to configure highly available servers.

• Managing Servers (Section 5.4) – Describes the administrative tasks

that you perform on servers.

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The Advanced Printing Software Administrator Utilities

subset includes the script, pd_get_started, that simplifies

the task of creating server databases. You can use either the

pd_get_started script or the utilities described in this chapter

to create server databases.

5.1 Creating Servers

One of the initial steps to configuring a print system is to create a supervisor

and a spooler. These servers control the flow of print jobs submitted by

users. That is, the supervisor and spooler receive jobs submitted by users,

submit the print data to printers, and send and receive control and status

information between the printers and users.

Each print system server process has a database associated with it. This

database contains the configuration attributes of the server.

Creating a running server process consists of two steps:

1. Creating the object database for the server.

2. Starting the server.

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