HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Managing Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers

Performing Other Spooler-Related Tasks

notiﬁcation message when a job times out if you specify the

job-timed-out event in the notiﬁcation proﬁle for the spooler.

NOTE Timed-out jobs require intervention from either you or the user because

the spooler is not able to determine what has happened to the job.

Depending on whether the job printed, either use the pdrm command to

remove the job from the spooler or resubmit the job with the pdresubmit

command.

To specify 15 minutes as the amount of time that a spooler waits after

losing communication with a supervisor before it changes the state of a

job to timed-out, enter:

pdset -c server -x "printer-register-threshold=15" Spool1

About Server Communications

Understanding the basics of communications between the HPDPS

spooler and supervisor and the communications by the objects contained

in the servers will help you understand more about the communication

process. The following information lists the different types of

communications that occur.

• Using the DCE or Basic Environment namespace, the physical

printer uses the value you supply for the associated-queue

attribute to determine the spooler containing the queue.

• If the spooler is running, the physical printer registers with the

spooler and HPDPS sets the value of the registered-with-spooler

physical printer attribute to true.

• If the spooler is not running, the physical printer continues trying to

printer-register-threshold attribute.

• After you have created and conﬁgured all HPDPS objects and HPDPS

is ready for use, communications occur as follows:

— The supervisor periodically signals the spooler to verify server

communications, and signals when jobs complete.

— The spooler sends requests to the physical printer during job

submissions, job queries, and when a job is cancelled or paused.