HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 6 105

Conﬁguring Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers

Creating and Conﬁguring HPDPS Spoolers

Upon attempting to start a supervisor as shown in the example above,

there are three possible results:

• If the spooler name you specify with the command does not already

exist, HPDPS displays a message asking if you want to create the

new spooler. Then it starts the new spooler.

• If the spooler exists but is not currently running, HPDPS displays

status information and issues a message when it has successfully

started the spooler.

• If the spooler exists and is already running, HPDPS issues a message

that shows the spooler is already operational..

NOTE When you restart a spooler, the logical printers and queues it contains

return to the state they were in when the spooler was shut down with the

pdshutdown command. If the logical printers were enabled, they will now

accept jobs. If the queues were ready and their associated physical

printers were enabled, the spooler will schedule jobs to them after the

physical printers re-register with the spooler.

Conﬁguring Spoolers

The spooler does not have any required attributes. However, you can

specify optional attributes with the pdset command. Refer to the

pd_att_spooler(5) for a list of optional attributes. The descriptor,

list-of-managers, and notification-profile attributes are

discussed below.

Specifying a Description for the Spooler

Use the descriptor attribute to specify a text string up to 4095

characters in length that describes the spooler. While the use of this

attribute is optional, a detailed description is useful if you have a large

number of spoolers or if you have many people managing your

distributed print environment.The type of information you might specify

initially in the description of the spooler includes:

• the purpose of the spooler: which users, user groups, or departments

will use the objects contained in this spooler