HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 9 255

Managing Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers

Querying for Spooler Information

This section describes how to query the values of attributes that reﬂect

the state of the spooler and the associations between the spooler and

other HPDPS objects.

Querying for the State of a Speciﬁc Spooler

Use -c server with the pdls command to query the state of a spooler.

The value of the non-settable server-state spooler attribute indicates

the state of the spooler. You can query the state of a spooler if you receive

a notiﬁcation message about a problem in the spooler or a message that

indicates the spooler has started to terminate. You might want to query

the status of spoolers once or twice during the day to ensure that the

processes are running without problems.

To query the state of the spooler Spool1, enter:

pdls -c server Spool1:

HPDPS displays information similar to the following:

Server State Type

------ ----- ----

Spool1 ready spooler

NOTE If the spooler is not running, HPDPS issues a message that it cannot

communicate with the server. See “Restarting the Spooler after It Has

Been Shut Down” later.

The server-state attribute is one of the predeﬁned attributes of the

brief option of the -r ﬂag for the pdls command. brief is the default

for the -r ﬂag. Therefore, the command you entered in this example is

equivalent to entering:

pdls -c server -r brief Spool1

Spooler States

The possible states of the spooler are: