HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 9 259

Managing Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers

Querying for Queue Information

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

the state of the queue and the associations between the queue and other

HPDPS objects.

Querying for the Status of a Queue

You may want to query the state of the queue if there is a problem with

the queue, such as the queue being backlogged, or if jobs in the queue are

not being scheduled to the physical printer or printers associated with

the queue.

For example, to query the state of the queue Queue1, enter:

pdls -c queue Queue1

HPDPS displays information similar to the following:

Scheduler

Queue State Ready Server

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

Queue1 ready priority FIFO Spool1

NOTE The queue-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 queue -r brief Queue1

Queue States

The possible states of the queue are:

State Description

ready Jobs in the queue can be scheduled to

the physical printer or printers

associated with the queue.