Mackie manual Deleting Xprint V7.0 objects

Administrative tasks under Xprint Introduction to administering Xprint V7.0

whenever the host is started. Supervisors are activated automatically when Xprint V7.0 is started if a printer they administer was configured with the -aaoption.

Objects are always activated using the xpchange command (see section “Changing the status of Xprint V7.0 objects” on page 82).

5.3.2Deleting Xprint V7.0 objects

With the xpdel command you can delete Xprint V7.0 objects from the Xprint V7.0 database. The Xprint V7.0 administrator can delete all objects from the system with the exception of the Xprint V7.0 system object (-sys), which cannot be deleted. System and local Xprint V7.0 administrators can only delete those objects which are administered on the local host. For a detailed description of using this command for each object type see the “Xprint V7.0 - Reference Manual”.

The following rules apply for deleting Xprint V7.0 objects:

–Only Xprint V7.0 objects which are no longer used by any other Xprint V7.0 object can be deleted. Before deleting an object you should therefore make sure that there are no references to the specified object. Any references can be displayed using the xpshow command with the option -di REFERENCED_BY (see section “Displaying the attributes of an Xprint V7.0 object” on page 83).

Any objects with references to the object to be deleted must be modified such that theses references are canceled.

–Printers (-dev), gateways (-gtw), servers (-srv) and supervisors (-spv) must be deactivated before they can be deleted. If necessary, this can be checked with the xpstat command (see section “Displaying the status of an Xprint V7.0 object” on page 82).

If an object to be deleted is still active, it must be deactivated with the xpchange command used with the option -st NOT_ACTIVE (see section “Changing the status of Xprint V7.0 objects” on page 82).

–When deleting an object of the type server, you must always make sure that the print queue assigned to the server does not contain any print jobs as these will be lost when the server is deleted. For servers you are therefore advised to deactivate spoolin some time before deleting the server. In this case, any print jobs in the print queue can still be printed without any more jobs being added. Another possibility is to redirect the print queues of a printer assigned to the server to another printer.

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