NonStop NS-Series Operations Guide (H06.03+)

Printers and Terminals: Monitoring and Recovery
HP Integrity NonStop NS-Series Operations Guide—529869-001
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Monitoring Printer and Collector Process Status
Monitoring Printer and Collector Process
Status
This subsection explains how to list the printers on your system and determine their
status. It also explains how to check the status of the spooler subsystem collector
processes, which accept output from applications and store the output on a disk.
Monitoring Printer Status
To check the status of all printers on your system with the SPOOLCOM utility:
> SPOOLCOM DEV
A listing similar to this output is sent to your home terminal:
The value WAITING in the STATE column indicates that the printer is available to print
user jobs.
To check the status of the printer $LASER with the SPOOLCOM DEV command:
> SPOOLCOM DEV $LASER
A listing such as the following is sent to your home terminal:
The output shows that the printer $LASER is up and available to print user jobs.
Monitoring Collector Process Status
Check that the collector processes on your spooler subsystem do not become more
than about 90 percent full. To check their status:
> SPOOLCOM COLLECT
A listing similar to this output is sent to your home terminal:
DEVICE STATE FLAGS PROC FORM
\SAGE.$S1 WAITING H $SPLX
\SAGE.$S2 WAITING H $SPLX
\AMBER.$S WAITING H $SPLP
\AMBER.$S2 WAITING H $SPLX
DEVICE STATE FLAGS PROC FORM
$LASER WAITING H $SPLP
COLLECT STATE FLAGS CPU PRI UNIT DATA FILE %FULL
$S ACTIVE 0 , 1 149 4 $SPOOL.SPL.DATA 40
$S1 ACTIVE 1 , 2 149 10 $SPOOL.SPL.DATA1 28
$S2 ACTIVE 2 , 3 149 8 $SPOOL.SPL.DATA2 0