HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 11 361

Managing Jobs and Supporting Users

Determining Job States and Job Status

For more information on job scheduling refer to “Specifying the Queue

Scheduling Method” in Chapter 6.

The following conditions can prevent HPDPS from scheduling a

validated job:

• A given physical printer is no longer registered with the spooler.

• The value or values for one or more physical printer attributes have

been modiﬁed.

HPDPS can schedule the job when one of the following occurs:

• A particular physical printer re-registers with the spooler and queue.

• You modify a physical printer attribute and assign a value that

corresponds to the value speciﬁed by a job attribute.

• You or the user modify the job and assign a job attribute value that

corresponds to the value speciﬁed by a physical printer attribute.

The job stays in the queue indeﬁnitely until one of these things occur,

unless there is a value speciﬁed for the job-discard-time attribute.

The job could be discarded before the problem preventing it from being

scheduled has been corrected.

Querying Job Status for Large Jobs

You or a user might want to ﬁnd out the status of a large job while it is

processing, that is, printing on a physical printer and in the processing

job state. Most jobs are small enough that they will ﬁnish printing before

you could become concerned about how long they will take to print.

However, if you have a large job, you might want to query it so that you

can estimate how long it will take the job to ﬁnish printing.

HPDPS updates the following job attributes as the job processes:

octets-completed Reports the number of octets (bytes) in the job that

have been printed. Compare this value with the value

of the job attribute total-job-octets.

This attribute is updated when the job is queried or

after each document copy completes.

pages-completed Reports the number of pages in the job that have

been printed.