Mackie V7.0 manual Administering supervisors, Adding a supervisor, Defining a new supervisor

Administering supervisors Configuring Xprint V7.0

6.16Administering supervisors

A supervisor controls one or more printers and provides them with user data. A supervisor is controlled by one server and must be located on the same host as the printers it controls.

If you want to...	Read...
add a supervisor	section “Adding a supervisor” on
	page 200
delete a supervisor	section “Deleting a supervisor” on
	page 205
change the status of a supervisor	section “Activating or deactivating
	supervisors” on page 203
modify the attributes of a supervisor	section “Modifying the attributes of a
	supervisor” on page 204
Table 26: Administering supervisors

6.16.1 Adding a supervisor

There are two possible ways of adding a supervisor: you can either define a new supervisor from scratch or you can copy an existing one and, if required, modify its attributes.

Note: If you add a new supervisor to the Xprint V7.0 system, the supervisor status is automatically set to NOT_ACTIVE. When the supervisor is activated for the first time (see section “Activating or deactivating super- visors” on page 203), a subdirectory with the name of the supervisor is created in the /var/spool/Xprint/config/SP directory (unless this has already been done).

Defining a new supervisor

●Add a new supervisor to the system:

xpadd -spvsupervisor_name [-seserver_name] [-hohost_name]

supervisor_name is the unique name of the new supervisor. If there is already a supervisor with this name, the command is rejected. For server_name specify the name of the server on which the supervisor is to be added. A server name must be specified, otherwise the default name is used. host_name represents the name of the remote host on which the supervisor

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