Mackie V7.0 manual Introduction to administering Xprint

Introduction to administering Xprint V7.0 Xprint V7.0 architecture

paper supply is refilled. By means of a recovery rule you could define a different procedure (to suspend the print job and set the printer to NOT_ACTIVE until the administrator intervenes, for example).

You can define, modify and delete recovery rules.

●Servers (-srv)

Servers are the Xprint V7.0 objects which administer incoming print jobs and are responsible for scheduling them. Each server administers its own print queue, which contains all the print jobs for the printers whose supervisors are controlled by the server.

You can define and delete servers and change their status.

●Supervisors (-spv)

A supervisor is directly responsible for controlling one or more printers. It obtains the job data from the responsible server and forwards it to the backend program (see entry “Backend” on page 273 in the glossary). One supervisor may control several local printers.

As the system or Xprint V7.0 administrator, you can set up and delete super- visors, and change their status.

●Users (-usr)

Xprint V7.0 differentiates between two types of user: UNIX users, who are not defined in the Xprint V7.0 system, and Xprint V7.0 users, who are defined in the Xprint V7.0 system. UNIX users are all users of the UNIX system on which Xprint V7.0 is running; the default settings for Xprint V7.0 apply to them. If these settings are not sufficient, the UNIX users can be defined in the Xprint V7.0 system.

More settings can be made for Xprint V7.0 users than for UNIX users:

–Xprint V7.0 users can access their print jobs from all the hosts for which they are registered.

–They can be assigned a security level and thus be granted access to printers with a corresponding security level.

–Print quotas can be defined for the number of jobs or print pages allowed, thus preventing users from making unlimited numbers of printouts.

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