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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. 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: 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: 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 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 example, you
might include the name of a person, a telephone number and office
location: pdset -c server -x "list-of-managers='Ken Donnell, ext. 5-7007, \
office C1-7' 'Ron Rourke, ext. 5-9007, office B1-4'" Super1 |
If you do not specify a value for the list-of-managers attribute, HPDPS does not provide a default. Receiving Supervisor Notification Messages The notification-profile attribute determines the messages you receive
informing you of events related to the supervisor. The event-identifiers component of the notification-profile attribute determines the event messages you receive.
The default events are: The delivery-address component of the notification-profile attribute defaults to the UserName@HostName of the administrator who created the supervisor and
the delivery-method component defaults to electronic-mail. See Chapter 7 “Using Notification” for descriptions of events
and event classes, and procedures for configuring the notification-profile attribute. |
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