Using The 'Exit' Delivery Method; Default Notification Profiles - Ricoh InfoPrint Pro C900AFP Manual

Using the 'exit' delivery method

The exit delivery method lets you set up automatic responses to system events
beyond just sending a message. When you set the delivery method for a given
event to exit, you use the delivery address to specify the explicit path to a script or
program on your system. Whenever that event occurs, InfoPrint Manager runs the
script or program you specify.
For example, if the InfoPrint Manager server runs low on disk space, the
disk-space-low event generates a message for the system administrator. The
administrator then has to do something to clean up the disk so InfoPrint Manager
can continue to run effectively. However, using the exit delivery method can
automate that process by launching a "disk clean up" script. The administrator can
still receive the message, but will know that the script is already working on the
problem.
If you are using the Print Optimizer DSS, InfoPrint Manager provides a sample
script called poexitcleanup that you can use with the exit delivery method. The
script demonstrates one way that you can automate cleaning up disk space in the
Print Optimizer resource filesystem after the disk-space-low event occurs.
By default, when you use the exit delivery method, InfoPrint Manager only passes
two values along to the script or program: the message number of the event that
occurred and the text of the message. As a result, the command line that the exit
delivery method executes is composed of the path that you specified in the
delivery address, the last three digits of the message number, and the text of the
message.
Therefore, if you create a notification profile entry for the job-completed event,
setting the delivery method to exit and the delivery address to
c:\Infoprint\exits\myscript, when a job finishes printing, InfoPrint Manager will
generate and execute a command line similar to this one:
c:\Infoprint\exits\myscript 280 "5010-280 Finished processing job ofc,
Job 20 (3520800004)."
The scripts or programs you write might require other information, such as the
destination name or the printer model. To pass those values, you can include them
in the delivery address of the notification profile entry; they will be added to the
end of the command line when InfoPrint Manager creates it.
Note: The program run by a notification profile with the "exit" delivery method
runs under InfoPrint Manager, which is running as a Windows service and does
not have access to the desktop. Because of this, the notification method of "exit"
does not allow a delivery address that requires a windowed program to be used,
such as notepad.exe.

Default notification profiles

By default, the person who creates an object (server, destination, queue, job)
receives the notification messages about that object. The default notification profile
settings provide information such as object status, error conditions, or
configuration changes. Some of these events require the person managing the
object to intervene; for example, someone might need to clear a paper jam.
By default, the events listed in this table generate messages for the corresponding
objects. These messages are delivered to the user who created the object: job
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