HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Introducing HP Distributed Print Service

HPDPS System Management Interfaces

You can conﬁgure and manage your system by entering commands

directly on the command line or by using the System Administration

Manager (SAM). You will need an HPDPS client installed on your system

to use either interface.

Using the Command Line Interface

The HPDPS command line interface is POSIX-compliant and provides

complete conﬁguration and monitoring capability. For detailed

information on the commands you can use to manage your system, see

HP Distributed Print Service User's Guide which fully describes the

command line interface.

Using the System Administration Manager (SAM)

The sam command starts a menu-driven program that many agree

makes it much easier to manage HPDPS than using the HPDPS

command line interface. Some of the advantages of using SAM are:

• Tasks are simpler to perform using SAM because you do not need to

remember the details of the command line interface. Also, many of

the tasks that SAM supports require the execution of multiple

commands, so by using SAM you don't have to remember all of the

steps in a task.

• SAM makes it easy to see the status of your entire HPDPS

environment. SAM understands the relationships between objects,

such as logical and physical printers assigned to a queue, and

provides mechanisms that make it easy for you to see these

relationships. Also, SAM provides the ability to represent all objects

as icons, with background colors used to highlight objects that are not

in a "ready" condition.

• SAM supports all of the tasks for managing spoolers, supervisors,

logical printers, physical printers and print queues. These tasks

include adding, modifying, removing, enabling, and disabling.

• SAM supports the most common tasks for managing jobs, including

pausing, resuming, resubmiting, promoting and removing.