Guardian User's Guide

Monitoring Hardware Components
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Checking Printer and Collector Status
Checking Collector Process Status
It is important that the collector processes on your spooler subsystem do not become
more than about 90 percent full. To check their status, enter:
> SPOOLCOM COLLECT
A listing similar to this is sent to your home terminal:
This listing shows that the three collector processes, $S, $S1, and $S2, are active and
none is approaching a full state. If the SPOOLCOM COLLECT display shows any
collector process approaching 90 percent capacity, jobs must be deleted from the
collector in question. See Section 14, Performing Routine Spooler Operations Using
Spoolcom, for additional information about this and other tasks relating to the spooler
subsystem.
The data shown in the report means:
See Table 19-2
on page 19-6 for more information about the possible states of tape
drives and other devices.
Example
To check the status of the printer $LASER with the SPOOLCOM DEV command, enter:
> SPOOLCOM DEV $LASER
A listing such as this is sent to your home terminal:
This display shows that the printer $LASER is up and available to print users’ jobs. See
Section 14, Performing Routine Spooler Operations Using Spoolcom
, for more
information about using Spoolcom.
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
COLLECT The collector processes.
STATE The current state of the collector processes. These states can be ACTIVE,
DORMANT, DRAIN, or ERROR.
FLAGS The current SCF substate of the tape path.
CPU The CPU number of the collector.
PRI The execution priority of the collector. The default value is 145.
UNIT The number of 512-word blocks requested by the collector when it needs
more disk space. The default value is 4.
DATA FILE The name of the disk file where the collector stores jobs.
%FULL The percentage the disk directory is full.
DEVICE STATE FLAGS PROC FORM
$LASER WAITING H $SPLP