HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Planning Your HPDPS Configuration
Planning DCE Extended Environment Groups
correspond to the needs of each type of group as described in the
following topics. See Chapter 7 , “Using Notification,” for detailed
information.
Planning User Groups
In a DCE Extended Environment, you might group your users according
to their physical locations, the type of printing they do, the hours they
work, the priority level of their work, or whatever is appropriate in your
environment. You can restrict the use of printers for special purposes by
creating a special user group when you define an HPDPS logical printer.
See “Planning a Group for People Who Will Use Restricted Printers” in
Chapter 8 for more information about setting up restricted printers. By
default, the person who submits a job receives notification of selected
printing events associated with the job. If, however, you need to make
sure others are notified about print events, you can modify the
notification profile for the job. See Chapter 7 , “Using Notification,” for
more information.
Planning Printer Operator Groups
Printer operators perform activities that keep the printer hardware up
and running. An operator might repair or replace malfunctioning parts,
add toner, or perform preventative maintenance. You might only need
one default operator group to support the monitoring of printers across
your site. The pddcesetup command creates a default operator group,
pd_operator, for your use in a DCE Extended Environment. This group
has read and write access to the HPDPS objects to which the group is
assigned.
Alternatively, you might have different types of support, such as
departmental support, for which you want to define additional operator
groups. Printer operators can receive messages that indicate printer
devices require intervention, or, they can monitor routine messages
associated with other HPDPS objects, such as spoolers and queues. By
default, only the person who creates a given object receives notification
on that object. You can modify the notification profile for each object to
support notifying other people. Selecting the
class-physical-printer-attention category of events ensures that
the printer operator will receive all event messages related to problems
at the printer. See Chapter 7 , “Using Notification,” for more information.