HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Conﬁguring Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers

Creating and Conﬁguring Queues

For example, to add three people to the list of people who receive

messages from users for queue Queue1, enter:

pdset -c queue -x "notify-operator+=message:White \

message:Jones electronic-mail:Smith@Olds" Queue1

The order in which you specify the components must be the

delivery-method ﬁrst, followed by the delivery-address.

Specifying a Description for the Queue

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

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

attribute is optional, a description is useful if you have a large number of

queues or if you have many people managing your distributed print

environment. The type of information you might specify initially in the

description of the queue includes:

• the name of the department or the account number of the users of the

queue

• any other information that is unique to your company or organization

If you do not set a value for the descriptor attribute, HPDPS does not

provide a default.

To set a description for the queue Queue1, enter:

pdset -c queue -x "descriptor='Queue1 supports the software \

information developers.'" Queue1

NOTE You can also set up a list of key contacts for the queue by setting the

list-of-managers attribute. See “Specifying Key Contacts for the

Spooler” earlier for an example of specifying values for this attribute.