HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 9 285

Managing Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers

Performing Other Spooler-Related Tasks

1. Disable the logical printer associated with the initial-value-job. You

must disable the logical printer before you can modify the attributes

of any associated initial value object.

To disable LogPrt6, enter:

pddisable LogPrt6

2. Modify the attributes of the initial value object with the pdset

command.

To specify a job retention period for the initial-value-job IVJDept5G,

enter:

pdset -c initial-value-job -x "job-retention-period=30" \

IVJDept5G

3. Enable the logical printer.

To enable logical printer LogPrt6, enter:

pdenable LogPrt6

HPDPS checks the logical printer for consistency for any attribute

value of the initial value object that corresponds to an attribute of the

logical printer. If they are not consistent, HPDPS does not enable the

logical printer and you receive an error message.

Modifying the printer-register-threshold Spooler

Attribute

The printer-register-threshold attribute speciﬁes the amount of

time, in minutes, the spooler waits after losing communication with a

supervisor before it changes the state of a job from the unknown state to

the timed-out state. The default value for this attribute is 10 minutes.

When HPDPS schedules a job to a physical printer from the queue, the

value of the current-job-state job attribute changes from pending to

processing. If the spooler becomes awarethat it has lost communication

with the supervisor containing the physical printer to which the job was

scheduled, it does not know the status of the job. Therefore, it changes

the job state to unknown. This condition can happen if you shut down and

then restart the spooler. If the physical printer does not re-register with

the spooler within the time period speciﬁed by

printer-register-threshold, the spooler changes the job state to

timed-out and the job remains in the spooler. You will receive a