Listing Printers And Checking Their Status; Table 14-2. Printer Device States - HP Guardian User Manual

Performing Routine Spooler Operations Using
Spoolcom

Listing Printers and Checking Their Status

To check the status of all printers on your system, enter:
> SPOOLCOM DEV
A listing similar to this is sent to your home terminal:
DEVICE
\SAGE.$S1
\SAGE.$S2
\AMBER.$S
\AMBER.$S2
WAITING in the STATE column indicates that the above printers are all available to
print users' jobs.
Example
To check the status of the printer $LASER, enter:
> SPOOLCOM DEV $LASER
A listing such as this is sent to your home terminal:
DEVICE
$LASER
WAITING in the STATE column of this listing shows that the printer $LASER is up
and available to print users' jobs.

Table 14-2. Printer Device States

State Definition
Busy The device is currently printing a job.
Waiting The device is ready to print a job, but no job is available to print on the device,
either because there are no jobs in the device queue or because none of the jobs
in the queue have a form name that matches the form currently on the device.
Offline The device is not available for printing jobs. The Spoolcom command DEV,
DRAIN causes the device to go offline after the current job finishes printing.
Device attributes can be changed only when the device is offline.
Suspended The device stopped all activity as a result of the DEV, SUSPEND command. If
it was printing a job when it was suspended, that job will resume printing when
the device is restarted.
Procerror The supervisor determined that the device print process is not working
correctly and has sent an error message. The device is unusable until the print
process is restarted. See the Operator Messages Manual for information on
spooler print process error messages.
Deverror A file-system error occurred on the device while a job was printing. File-
system error messages are listed in the Operator Messages Manual and are
described more fully in the Guardian Procedure Errors and Messages Manual.
Table 14-2 describes the possible states for a printer.
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Listing Printers and Checking Their Status
STATE FLAGS
WAITING H
WAITING H
WAITING H
WAITING
STATE FLAGS
WAITING H
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PROC FORM
$SPLX
$SPLX
$SPLP
H $SPLX
PROC FORM
$SPLP