HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Managing Jobs and Supporting Users
Determining Job States and Job Status
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This output reports the value of the current-job-state attribute. It
also tells you how many jobs are ahead of this job in the queue, as
indicated in the Intervening Jobs column. The Printer Requested
column shows the logical printer to which the job was submitted. If
HPDPS has scheduled the job, thePrinters Assigned column identifies
the physical printer processing the job.
Querying for the Verbose Set of Job Attributes
For jobs, the verbose option of the -r flag returns additional values for
the job-state-reasons attribute and for the size of the job, as reported
by the total-job-octets attribute.
To query the state of a job and to receive the values of the job attributes
defined for the verbose option, enter the command:
pdq -U -r verbose Spool2:0900700003
HPDPS displays information similar to the following for the default
printer:
Current Intervening Printer
Job ID Name State Jobs Requested
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Printers Total
Assigned Octets Owner
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If there is any problem with a job, such as it is taking a long time to
print, often youcan determine everything you needto know about the job
by either requesting the brief or verbose attributes with the pdq
command. The verbose option includes the current-job-state
attribute, whose values are described in “About Current and Previous
Job States” shortly, and the job-state-reasons attribute, whose values
are described in Table 11-5. The verbose option also includes the
UserName and the HostName of the person submitting the job as shown in
the Owner column.