HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

160 Chapter7
Using Notification
Understanding the notification-profile Attribute
• The sequence in which the components are entered is not important.
event-identifiers Component
This component specifies the events for which the user receives
messages. This component is the only component that can have multiple
values within a notification-profile attribute value. HPDPS uses
default values if you do not specify values.
The values that you specify for the event-identifiers component can
be:
• Individual events
• One or more event-class names that represent groups of events
• Or a combination of event-class names and individual events.
Events Specified for Servers (Spoolers and Supervisors)
Servers contain other objects that have their own notification profiles.
Spoolers contain logical printers and queues and supervisors contain
physical printers. If an event occurs in a server that affects an object
contained in it, then HPDPS sends notification for those objects. For
example, the event object-deleted in a spooler notification profile
causes HPDPS to send a notification message for contained logical
printers or queues.
Also, some events that occur in the contained objects of a server cause
HPDPS to send a notification message to other objects contained within
the server. For example, the event queue-backlogged on a spooler
notification profile causes a message to be sent for any queue contained
within that spooler. This is not true of all events. For example,
queue-state-changed will cause a message to besent only for the queue
involved. See Table 7-3, for a list of the default events for each object.
Events Specified in any Notification Profile
If you set two notification profiles for two different objects, each with the
same event-identifiers, delivery-method, and delivery-address,
the person identified in the delivery-address will receive two
notification messages for the same event.
If you specify event-identifiers that are not supported for the object
for which you are creating the notification-profile attribute value,
such as queue-state-changed on a spooler or object-deleted on a job,