HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

354 Chapter11
Managing Jobs and Supporting Users
Determining Job States and Job Status
Querying for the Status of Jobs
You can query for sets of attributes or for specific attributes that provide
information about the status of a job.
Querying for the Brief Set of Job Attributes
To query the status of a job and to receive the values of the job attributes
defined for the default brief option of the -r flag of the pdq command,
enter:
pdq -U Spool2:0900700003
HPDPS displays information similar to the following:
Current Intervening Printer Printers
Job ID Name State Jobs Requested Assigned
---- -------------- ------- ------- ----------- --------- --------
modification-time If the job has been modified, this attribute reports the time the
job was modified. This attribute has no value if the job was not
modified or cancelled.
HPDPS might update the following attributes as it processes the job.
octets-completed Reports the number of octets (bytes) in the job that have been
printed.
pages-completed Reports the number of pages in this job that have been printed.
processing-time Reports the amount of time that the job has been printing on
the printer. If printing has completed, the value is the total
amount of time that it took the job to print.
job-copies-completed Reports the number of copies of the particular job that have
been printed.
A miscellaneous status attribute.
name-of-last-accessor Reports the name of the user or the name of the program that
last performed an action on the job. This attribute has no value
if the job was not modified.
Table 11-3 Job Status Attributes
Attribute Description