HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Managing Supervisors and Physical Printers
Querying for Supervisor Information
Supervisor States
The possible states of the supervisor are:
State Description
initializing The supervisor process is initializing.
ready The supervisor has finished
initializing and its physical printers
can accept jobs if they are ready.
terminating The supervisor is shutting down. The
physical printers contained in the
supervisor do not accept new jobs,
and existing jobs might or might not
finish printing.
Querying for the States of All HPDPS Supervisors
To query for the states of all supervisors, use a backslash (\) followed by
the global character (an asterisk) to specify that you are querying all of
the supervisors that are currently running. For example:
pdls -c server -f server-type==supervisor \*:
Querying for the Verbose Set of Supervisor Attributes
To query for the verbose set of attributes for supervisor Super1, enter:
pdls -c server -r verbose Super1
HPDPS displays information similar to the following:
Physical
Server State Printers Supported Type
------ ----- ------------------ ----------
Super1 ready PhyPrt4 supervisor
PhyPrt5
Querying for Ready Physical Printers Contained in
the Supervisor
A physical printer is ready if it is enabled and if it is in either the
connecting-to-printer, idle, or printing states. This query also