HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 5 91
Creating/Configuring Supervisors and Physical Printers
Creating and Configuring Supervisors
• If the supervisor name you specify with the command does not
already exist, HPDPS displays a message asking if you want to create
it as a new server. Then it starts the new supervisor.
• If the supervisor exists but is not currently running, HPDPS displays
status information and issues a message when it has successfully
started the supervisor.
• If the supervisor exists and is already running, HPDPS indicates that
the server is operational and takes no further action.
Configuring Supervisors
The supervisor does not have any required attributes. However, you can
specify optional attributes with the pdset command. Refer to
pd_att_supervisor(5) for a list of optional attributes. The descriptor,
list-of-managers, and notification-profile attributes are
discussed below.
Specifying a Description for the Supervisor
The descriptor attribute specifies a text string of up to 4095 characters
in length describing the supervisor. While the use of this attribute is
optional, a detailed description is useful if you have a large number of
supervisors or if you have many people managing your distributed print
environment. For example, you can specify the user groups using the
supervisor and its contained objects:
pdset -c server -x "descriptor='This supervisor contains \
physical printers used by Accounting.'" Super1
If you do not specify a value for the descriptor attribute, HPDPS does
not provide a default.
NOTE The use of the -c and -x flags is explained in the HP Distributed Print
Service User’s Guide.
Specifying Key Contacts for the Supervisor
Use the list-of-managers attribute to specify one or more text strings,
each up to 255 characters in length, describing the key people in your
organization who are responsible for managing the supervisor. For