Mackie manual Changing the status of Xprint V7.0 objects

Administrative tasks under Xprint Introduction to administering Xprint V7.0

5.3.4Changing the status of Xprint V7.0 objects

With the xpchange command, you can change the dynamic data of Xprint V7.0 objects, such as printer states or the states of the current user print quotas. For a detailed description of using this command for each object type see the “Xprint V7.0 - Reference Manual”.

With some objects the status can assume several levels, i.e they have a global status and subordinate substates. A printer, for example, has a global status which is defined via the -stoption. In addition to this, spoolin and spoolout can be switched on and off individually with the options -siand -so.

If the xpchange command is invoked for an object without options, it always switches on all states (ACTIVE or ON). Similarly all the states of the object are switched off when the object is deactivated with the -st NOT_ACTIVE option.

When a substate which has been switched off is switched back on, Xprint V7.0 automatically makes sure that the main status is set to ACTIVE.

5.3.5Displaying information on Xprint V7.0 objects

With the xpstat and xpshow commands you can display information on each Xprint V7.0 object you are allowed to use or administer. For a detailed description of using these commands for each object type see the “Xprint V7.0 - Reference Manual”.

Displaying the status of an Xprint V7.0 object

●To display the status of an Xprint V7.0 object, use the following command: xpstat object_type [selection] [-didisplay]

For object_type you specify the object whose status you want to display (e.g. -devfor printer). If the object type is not specified, the command refers by default to print jobs (-job).

If selection is not specified, the command refers to all objects of the specified type in the Xprint V7.0 system. Otherwise you can either specify the name(s) of the objects whose status you want to display, or you can use the

-scl“selection_criteria_list” option (see section “Selection criteria list” on page 266 in the Appendix) to define a list of criteria according to which the relevant objects are selected.

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