HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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10. Managing Supervisors and Physical Printers
Monitoring Supervisor and Physical Printer Configurations . . . . . . .298
Setting the message Attribute for Supervisors and
Supervisor Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .298
Creating Archive Files for Supervisors and Supervisor Objects . . .299
Setting Policy for Job-Size Physical Printer Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . .300
Using the maximum-copies-supported Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .300
Controlling the Sizes of Jobs Accepted by the Physical Printer . . . .301
Determining Which Physical Printers Require Authorization . . . . .302
Supporting Special Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .303
Sending Media-Related Messages to Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .304
Querying for Supervisor Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .305
Querying for the State of a Specific Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .305
Supervisor States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .306
Querying for the States of All HPDPS Supervisors . . . . . . . . . . . . .306
Querying for the Verbose Set of Supervisor Attributes . . . . . . . . . . .306
Querying for Ready Physical Printers Contained in
the Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .306
Querying for Physical Printer Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .308
Querying for the State of a Physical Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .308
Physical Printer States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .308
Determining Whether a Physical Printer is Registered . . . . . . . . . .309
Responding to Physical Printer State Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .311
Printer has needs-attention Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .311
Printer needs-key-operator Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .312
Printer has timed-out Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .312
Message-Related Tasks for Physical Printer Management . . . . . . . . .314
Specifying Who Receives Job Start and End Messages . . . . . . . . . .314
About Controlling Job Start and End Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .315