HP NonStop NS manual Monitoring Printer and Collector Process Status, Monitoring Printer Status

Printers and Terminals: Monitoring and Recovery Monitoring Printer and Collector Process Status

Monitoring Printer and Collector Process Status

This subsection explains how to list the printers on your system and determine their status. It also explains how to check the status of the spooler subsystem collector processes, which accept output from applications and store the output on a disk.

Monitoring Printer Status

To check the status of all printers on your system with the SPOOLCOM utility:

> SPOOLCOM DEV

A listing similar to this output is sent to your home terminal:

DEVICE	STATE	FLAGS	PROC	FORM
\SAGE.$S1	WAITING	H	$SPLX
\SAGE.$S2	WAITING	H	$SPLX
\AMBER.$S	WAITING	H	$SPLP
\AMBER.$S2	WAITING	H	$SPLX

The value WAITING in the STATE column indicates that the printer is available to print user jobs.

To check the status of the printer $LASER with the SPOOLCOM DEV command:

> SPOOLCOM DEV $LASER

A listing such as the following is sent to your home terminal:

DEVICE	STATE	FLAGS	PROC	FORM
$LASER	WAITING	H	$SPLP

The output shows that the printer $LASER is up and available to print user jobs.

Monitoring Collector Process Status

Check that the collector processes on your spooler subsystem do not become more than about 90 percent full. To check their status:

> SPOOLCOM COLLECT

A listing similar to this output is sent to your home terminal:

COLLECT	STATE	FLAGS CPU		PRI	UNIT	DATA FILE	%FULL
$S	ACTIVE	0	, 1	149	4	$SPOOL.SPL.DATA	40
$S1	ACTIVE	1	, 2	149	10	$SPOOL.SPL.DATA1	28
$S2	ACTIVE	2	, 3	149	8	$SPOOL.SPL.DATA2	0

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