IBM 6500 manual Printer Monitoring And Logging, Printer And Print Job Monitoring, Term Description

Printer And Print Job Monitoring

Printer Monitoring And Logging

The Ethernet Interface allows you to monitor printer status and log information through its built-in HTML forms, command set, and logpaths.

Printer And Print Job Monitoring

To view the current status of an I/O port on the Ethernet Interface, two methods are available:

•select the desired I/O port on the “Status” HTML form (i.e., http://EthernetInterfaceIPaddress/ indexStatus.html; e.g., http://192.75.11.9/ indexStatus.html) that comes with the Ethernet Interface.

•enter the lpstat command directly on the print server once logged in as guest or root.

In each case, you are given a description of each I/O port status and a list of queued jobs. Table 13 describes some of the common terms you may encounter.

	Table 13. Key Printer Logging Terms
Term	Description
idle	There is no job queued for the Ethernet Interface
	I/O port.
blocked	The printer is not allowing the Ethernet Interface
	to send data to it. Check that there is not a printer
	error and it is online and ready to go.
waiting	The Ethernet Interface knows about a print job
	but is waiting for the host to send more data or to
	send an expected packet.

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