HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

256 Chapter9

Managing Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers

Querying for Spooler Information

State Description

initializing The spooler process is initializing.

ready The spooler has ﬁnished initializing

and its logical printers can accept

jobs if they are enabled.

terminating The spooler is shutting down. The

logical printers contained in the

spooler will not accept new jobs, and

existing jobs might or might not be

scheduled.

Querying for the States of All HPDPS Spoolers

Use -c server and -f server-type==spooler with the pdls command

to query the state of all HPDPS spoolers. You use an asterisk to specify

that you are querying all spoolers. For example,enter:

pdls -c server -f server-type==spooler \*:

Querying for the Verbose Set of Spooler Attributes

To query the verbose set of attributes for the spooler Spool3, enter:

pdls -c server -r verbose Spool3

This is a good way of viewing your conﬁguration and determining

whether the physical printers are registered with (supported by) the

spooler.

HPDPS displays information similar to the following:

Logical Physical

Server State Printers Supported Printers Supported Type Queues

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

Spool3 ready LogPrt1 PhyPrt1 spooler Queue1

LogPrt2 PhyPrt2 Queue3

LogPrt3 PhyPrt3

Querying for Job and Document Attributes Supported

by the Spooler

HPDPS uses the values of the job and document attributes during job

validation.