NetWare 4.1/9000 Print Services

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Managing Print Services with the NetWare Administrator Utility
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.
By default, no audit log is created. When you enable the audit log feature
you can do the following:
• View the log. Use PCONSOLE to view the log.
• Limit the log size. By default, the log has no size limitations. The log's current
size is displayed in the dialog.
• Delete the log. Deleting an audit log destroys the current log and, if auditing is
enabled, starts a new log by the same name in the same directory.
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 text 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.
If the printer is an XNP type used by UNIX, the log might also indicate how
long it took to print the job, how many pages were printed, when the job was
printed, and when the job was submitted.
Adding, Changing, and Removing Print Server Passwords
For added security, you can limit access to your print server by assigning a
password to it. Use the following procedure to do this with NetWare
Administrator.
Procedure