HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Introducing HP Distributed Print Service
HPDPS System Management Interfaces
SAM provides extensive, context-sensitive online help. This includes
several tutorials that explain HPDPS concepts.
There are several things that SAM does not currently do. They include:
SAM does not provide any support for managing initial value objects,
HPDPS error logs, or notification profiles. (Error logs are covered in
Chapter 12 , “Using HPDPS Error Logs,” while notification profiles
are explained in Chapter 7 , “Using Notification,”.) Use the command
line interface to manage these objects.
SAM is not a true monitoring tool. SAM does show you the current
status of your HPDPS environment, but the data SAM displays does
not get updated automatically when events occur in the print
environment.
To use SAM, SAM must be installed on your system. If you did not
originally install SAM and want to use it, refer to Managing HP-UX
Software with SD-UX. See
sam
(1M) for details.
To start SAM, enter:
sam