HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Managing Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers

Managing Jobs in Queues and Spoolers

You might need to perform job-management tasks for the following

circumstances:

• One or more of the physical printers associated with the queue is

unable to receive jobs from the queue. A physical printer might not

currently be registered with the spooler containing the queue.

• The queue is paused and unable to send jobs to a physical printer.

• Jobs are paused or are held for resources.

NOTE Administrators can pause jobs with the pdpause command, which

changes the state of the job to paused. HPDPS changes the state of a job

to held if the job requires resources and the resources are either not

ready or are not supported. Users can also submit jobs with the value of

the job-hold attribute set to true, which also causes a job state of held.

In these cases, you often want to do something with the jobs in the queue

that are waiting to be scheduled. Otherwise, they will stay in the queue

indeﬁnitely.

There are other times you need to manage jobs in a queue, such as when:

• The queue is backlogged and you want to resubmit some of the jobs to

another queue. Refer to “Responding to Queue Backlog” later for more

information on managing jobs in a queue when the queue is

backlogged.

• You want to do something with an individual job in a queue or several

jobs in the queue based on the needs of the job owner or for some

other reason. Refer to Chapter 11 , “Managing Jobs and Supporting

Users,” for more information on managing individual jobs.

For any of the reasons described above, you might want to do the

following:

• Delete or resubmit one or more jobs in a queue. See “Deleting Jobs

from Queues and from the Spooler” shortly.