HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 3 71

Planning Your HPDPS Conﬁguration

Planning DCE Extended Environment Groups

Planning System Operator Groups

Another group you may want to integrate into your print environment is

for people who are responsible for managing the ﬂow of jobs through the

system. As long as users are sending a balanced number and consistent

types of jobs to the printers, and the printer devices are on-line and

working well, the job ﬂow requires little attention. However, many sites

ﬁnd that a heavy job ﬂow with a broad mix of small and large jobs, high

and low priority jobs, and printers that are occasionally off-line, requires

the day-to-day intervention by a print system operator who can address

queue backlog, promote jobs in the queues, and monitor the job ﬂow to

ensure jobs are running smoothly.

You can create individual groups for your print system operators

depending on which sets of queues they manage, or you might ﬁnd that

the default pd_operator group meets your needs in this area. This group

has read and write access to the HPDPS objects to which it is assigned.

Print system operators might want to receive all attention messages that

indicate an HPDPS object requires intervention. And, they might want

to monitor routine status messages when troubleshooting job ﬂow

problems. Selecting the attention category of event messages for

queues, spoolers, or jobs ensures that the print system operator receives

information about problems with job ﬂow. See Table 7-2 for more

information.

Planning Administrator Groups

A signiﬁcant role in the increasingly complex client-server printing area

is performed by the administrator who deﬁnes the logical and physical

conﬁguration of the print environment, creates the objects needed, and

makes real-time adjustments to the conﬁguration as it develops to match

the printing needs of the site. Consider grouping your administrators

according to the servers or DCE cells they manage. You might ﬁnd that

the default pd_admin group created by the pddcesetup command meets

your needs. The pd_admin group has DCE read, write, and delete

capability on the system. This enables the administrator not only to

monitor the system, but also to conﬁgure the system, adding and

deleting objects as needed to improve the effectiveness of the print

environment.