HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

264 Chapter9
Managing Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers
Querying for Logical Printer Information
Querying for the Verbose Set of Logical Printer
Attributes
To query the verbose set of attributes for the logical printer LogPrt2,
enter:
pdls -c printer -r verbose LogPrt2
HPDPS displays information similar to the following:
Printers
Printer Realization Server Locations Associated Enabled Queue
------- ----------- ------ --------- ---------- ------- ------
LogPrt2 logical Spool2 B7-12/2 PhyPrt2 true Queue2
PRM-3 PhyPrt1
NOTE HPDPS does not determine the location information automatically. The
location information is the list of text strings that were entered as the
values of the printer-locations logical printer attribute, if any. If a
location changes and you do not update the attribute, the information
will not be accurate for your users.
Querying for Ready Physical Printers Associated with
the Logical Printer
A physical printer is ready if it is enabled and its state is
connecting-to-printer, idle, or printing.
To query ready physical printers associated with the logical printer
LogPrt2, enter:
pdls -c printer -s column \
-r brief,printer-associated-printers,printers-ready LogPrt2
This query also provides you with the name of the queue through which
the logical and physical printers are associated.
HPDPS displays information similar to the following: