HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Managing Supervisors and Physical Printers

Modifying Supervisor and Physical Printer Tuning Attributes

Modifying Supervisor and Physical Printer

Tuning Attributes

Supervisors and physical printers have some attributes that affect

performance. These attributes all have default values which ensure good

performance under most circumstances. Therefore, the examples in

Chapter 5 , “Creating/Conﬁguring Supervisors and Physical Printers,”

that describe how to create physical printers do not specify values for

these attributes. The physical printers have default values for these

tuning attributes after you create them.

This section describes conditions when you might want to change the

following attributes:

• Supervisor attributes

— job-submission-timer

• Physical printer attributes

— printer-register-threshold

— printer-timeout-period

Setting the job-submission-timer Supervisor Attribute

The job-submission-timer attribute speciﬁes the amount of time, in

minutes, the supervisor waits to receive all of the information about the

document objects in a job. If the supervisor does not receive all of the

information about the document objects of the job in that amount of time,

it cancels the job. You receive a notiﬁcation message if the notiﬁcation

proﬁle for the physical printer speciﬁes you for the

job-aborted-by-server event. This is the only supervisor attribute

that relates to performance. When you create a supervisor with the

pdstartsuv command, you cannot specify values for any of the

supervisor attributes. Therefore, the value of the

job-submission-timer attribute always has the default value of 30

minutes initially. Thedefault valueshould beadequate formost jobs. You

would only increase the value if a user needs to submit an exceptionally

large job, with the document transfer method of with-request, that

cannot be successfully transmitted in 30 minutes.