NetWare 4.1/9000 Print Services

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Managing Print Services with PCONSOLE
Enabling and Viewing the Print Server Auditing Log
Enabling and Viewing the Print Server Auditing Log
The print server auditing log provides information about all jobs that have
been printed. Auditing records are retained as ASCII files so that they can be
read with any text editor. The log can be viewed in PCONSOLE as well as
NetWare Administrator.
Figure 4-2 Typical Entry in the Auditing Log
In designing the auditing log, Hewlett-Packard has recognized that
companies do accounting in a variety of ways. For this reason, the auditing
log provides a basic default format based on ASCII and a fixed record
length. Both characteristics are designed to make it as easy as possible to
write a customized program to retrieve the information it needs in a format
determined by a particular company.
The auditing log is sufficiently flexible to record whatever information a
printer sends to it. Regardless of printer type, the log will record how many
bytes a job took to print, the user who submitted the job, when the job
entered the print queue, when the job was printed, and what printer serviced
the job.