Usage Considerations By Dss For Accounting Information - Ricoh InfoPrint Pro C900AFP Manual

3. Enter
The pdaccount command only finds and processes the information in the log files
in the original location. Once you move or rename the files, you cannot use the
pdaccount command to summarize the data. You might want to use the pdaccount
command to find and process the information and summarize it, store the
summaries in a different location, and then delete the logs.
Attention: Requesting information for all accounting records can consume a lot
of the server's memory since all the data is read into memory to be sent to you. If
you have a lot of data to retrieve, you should consider requesting it for smaller
time periods and concatenating the returned data.
For example, to retrieve all the accounting records for a one month period, you
could issue four pdaccount commands like this:
v pdaccount -t all -s '00:00:00 03/01/00' -e '00:00:00 03/08/00' Server A
v pdaccount -t all -s '00:00:00 03/08/00' -e '00:00:00 03/15/00' Server A
v pdaccount -t all -s '00:00:00 03/15/00' -e '00:00:00 03/22/00' Server A
v pdaccount -t all -s '00:00:00 03/22/00' -e '00:00:00 03/31/00' Server A

Usage considerations by DSS for accounting information

This section contains more information about server accounting information by
DSS. It also gives suggestions for working with the various DSSs when using the
accounting information in InfoPrint Manager.
In general, InfoPrint Manager logs jobs that complete or are paused, cancelled, or
are cleaned while being processed by the actual destination. InfoPrint Manager
does not log jobs that are not completed but are put back into the queue because
the printer is shut down when a printer problem is encountered.
BSD DSS
PSF DSS with TCP/IP attachment type
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InfoPrint Manager for Windows: Procedures
dir
This command displays the contents of your directory for you to verify that the
file has been deleted. When the next job is submitted for printing to that actual
destination, InfoPrint creates a new prt1.accounting.log.v1 file and writes the
data into that file.
>March1.accting.data
>March2.accting.data
>March3.accting.data
>March4.accting.data
The page count recorded in the accounting log for destinations using the
BSD DSS is based on the these criteria:
v If the user specifies a job-page-count job attribute or a page-count
document attribute with the print job, InfoPrint Manager records that
number in the accounting log.
v If the user has not specified job-page-count or page-count, and the data
being printed is PCL, PDF or PostScript, InfoPrint Manager attempts to
calculate the page count and records the calculated page count in the
accounting log.
v On jobs that complete successfully, the page count shown in the
accounting log is the number of AFP pages stacked on the printer,
including start pages, separator pages, and end pages.