HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Creating/Conﬁguring Supervisors and Physical Printers

Creating and Conﬁguring Supervisors

You can create and conﬁgure an HPDPS supervisor from SAM or from

the command line.

Using SAM, you can directly create a supervisor, or, you can create a

supervisor when you add a physical printer.

From the command line, you can use the pdstartsuv and pdset

commands to create, start, and conﬁgure HPDPS supervisors, as shown

in the sections below.

NOTE To simplify the security conﬁguration for supervisors and the objects

they contain, conﬁgure DCE security for supervisors before you actually

create them. See “Setting the Default Permissions Granted by a Server

and All Its Objects” in Chapter 8 for instructions and procedures.

Creating or Starting the Supervisor

To create or start a supervisor from the command line, use the

pdstartsuv command and specify a supervisor name.

For example, to start the supervisor Super1, enter:

pdstartsuv Super1

You must start the HPDPS supervisor before you can conﬁgure

supervisor attributes or attributes for physical printers controlled by the

supervisor.

The following are supervisor naming conventions:

The characters in the name you specify for the supervisor can include

any uppercase letter A through Z, any lowercase letter a through z,

numbers 0-9, a hyphen, an underscore, or a period. This naming

convention applies to all HPDPS object names.

You should not start the supervisor name or any other HPDPS object

name with a hyphen.

Upon attempting to start a supervisor as shown in the example above,

there are three possible results: