HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Managing Supervisors and Physical Printers
Message-Related Tasks for Physical Printer Management
Message-Related Tasks for Physical Printer
Management
This section describes physical printer tasks related to managing jobs
scheduled to a physical printer for processing. These tasks include:
• setting up the notify-operator physical printer attribute to route
job start and end messages
• responding to job start and end messages
• disabling job start and end messages
Specifying Who Receives Job Start and End Messages
Use -c printer and -x notify-operator with the pdset command to
specify who receives messages from users.
The notify-operator attribute is a multi-valued attribute with the
following two components:
delivery-method This component specifies how the operator receives
the job message. Possiblevalues are electronic-mail,
message, and none. The default delivery method is
electronic-mail.
delivery-address This component specifies the address of the
operator who will receive the job message. The default
value is the address of the administrator who created
the physical printer.
You can modify the notify-operator attribute if the physical printer is
managed by an operator and not by the administrator who created the
physical printer. Also, the physical printer might be managed by
different operators on different shifts. You might want to notify some
operators either with a message or by electronic mail, or by both delivery
methods.
The following example shows how to set up the notify-operator
attribute for two operators who manage the printer. The first operator
receives start and end messages from users as messages and the second
operator receives the messages by electronic mail.