Introduction to administering Xprint V7.0 Administrative tasks under Xprint

5.3.3Modifying Xprint V7.0 objects

With the xpmod command, you can modify the static attributes of all Xprint V7.0 objects. Dynamic attributes such as the printer status or the status of the current print quotas of a user can be changed with the xpchange command (see the following section “Changing the status of Xprint V7.0 objects” on page 82). The Xprint V7.0 administrator can modify all objects in the system, while the system and local Xprint V7.0 administrators can only modify those objects which are administered on their 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 modifying objects:

Printers (-dev), gateways (-gtw), servers (-srv) and supervisors (-spv) must be deactivated before they can be modified. 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).

Remember to reactivate the object after modifying it!

Basically you can use any option which can also be used when adding the object. However, there are a few special cases, which are described below:

Options representing Boolean values (e.g. the option -aafor printers which switches on automatic activation) can be removed by specifying a minus sign - after the option (example: xpmod -dev printer1 -aa-).

Options defining lists (e.g. the -dloption for printer groups which defines the printers belonging to this group) can be modified in three different ways:

If a minus sign is specified after the option, the objects specified behind it are removed from the list (example: xpmod -dgr pgroup1 -dl- printer4 printer5).

If a plus sign + is specified after the option, the objects specified behind it are added to the list (example: xpmod -dgr pgroup1 -dl+ printer6).

If the objects are specified directly after the option, the existing list is replaced by the specified objects (example: xpmod -dgr pgroup2 -dl printer1 printer2 printer6).

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