HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Managing Supervisors and Physical Printers

Modifying Supervisor and Physical Printer Tuning Attributes

To increase the job-submission time for the supervisor Super1 to one

hour, enter:

pdset -c server -x "job-submission-timer=1:00" Super1

NOTE The transfer method for jobs sent to the supervisor inﬂuences your usage

of the job-submission-timer attribute. The transfer-method

document attribute speciﬁes the method. The default method,

dce-pipe-pull, transfers ﬁles more efﬁciently than the with-request

method. The with-request transfer method sends the contents of the

document along with the document object. Therefore, you are very

unlikely to need to increase the value for the job-submission-timer

physical printer attribute when using the default transfer method.

Setting the printer-register-threshold Physical

Printer Attribute

The printer-register-threshold attribute speciﬁes the amount of

time, in minutes, that the physical printer waits between attempts to

physical printer. This attribute affects performance since attempting too

often will slow down the system, while attempting too infrequently will

cause inconvenient delays in printing jobs. The default value for this

attribute is 10 minutes.

A physical printer attempts to register with its spooler when you create

the physical printer, when you restart the supervisor containing the

physical printer, and when the servers lose communication. After

successful registration, HPDPS sets the value of the

registered-with-spooler physical printer attribute to true. Refer to

“About Server Communications” inChapter 9 for a description of howthe

supervisor and spooler and the objects they contain communicate.

When the printer determines that it is no longer registered, it attempts

to register with the spooler again at intervals in the amount of time

speciﬁed by the printer-register-threshold physical printer

attribute. The registered-with-spooler attribute changes to false.

The physical printer continues to attempt to register at the end of the

time period speciﬁed by this attribute until it is successful.