HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 10 325
Managing Supervisors and Physical Printers
Modifying Supervisor and Physical Printer Tuning Attributes
HPDPS notifies you when a physical printer is no longer registered if the
notification profile for either the physical printer or supervisor specifies
you are to receive notification messages for the printer-unregistered
event.
For example, to set the value of the printer-register-threshold
attribute to 5 minutes for PhyPrt1, enter:
pdset -x "printer-register-threshold=5" PhyPrt1
Usually the default value is adequate.
Setting the printer-timeout-period Physical Printer
Attribute
The printer-timeout-period attribute specifies how long, in seconds,
that the supervisor tries to connect to a printer device when one of its
physical printers receives a job. The default for this attribute is 60
seconds.
A physical printer enters the timed-out state when it cannot lock the
printer device within the amount of time specified. This happens when
the printer device is already locked. You receive a notification message if
the notification profile for either the physical printer or the supervisor
specifies you for the printer-timed-out event.
To set the value of printer-timeout-period to 90 seconds, enter:
pdset -x "printer-timeout-period=90" PhyPrt2
Refer to “Responding to Physical Printer State Problems” earlier for
more information on how this attribute affects the printer state and job
processing.
The value of the printer-timeout-period attribute also determines
how long a physical printer takes to enter the needs-attention state;
the physical printer enters this state when it runs out of paper or goes
off-line for some reason.