Spooler Utilities Reference Manual

Spooler Quick Start

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Cold Starting a Drained Spooler

This subsection explains how to cold start your spooler subsystem after it has been

drained. See Draining the Spooler on page 1-9. Starting a new spooler is known as

“cold starting” the spooler. Coldstarting a spooler erases existing print jobs and

previously configured settings. (When you cold start a spooler, you create new control

files in which the supervisor stores all the configuration information. When you warm

start the spooler, the supervisor uses existing control files, and configuration settings

are retained.)

The procedure for cold starting a spooler is generally the same from one time to the

next. HP recommends that you maintain command files that can save time when you

start the spooler.

To start a new spooler, log on as a super-group user (255, n)—not as the super ID

(255,255)—and follow these steps:

1. You must either purge the datafile, or perform a FUP PURGEDATA on the datafile

during a coldstart:

>PURGE data-file

>FUP PURGEDATA datafile

You must purge the file or issue PURGEDATA against the datafile. If you do not,

the SPOOLCOM;COLLECT, STATUS DETAIL command, when issued after a

coldstartup of spooler and after SPOOLCOM;COLLECT $collector-name, START

command, will show the percent full and allocated units of the datafile. If the

datafile has not been newly created or has not had a PURGEDATA performed

against it, the file will have an end-of-file (EOF) greater than zero.

2. Purge the supervisor control files.

> PURGE supervisor-control-filename

3. Create the data files in which collectors store jobs, one data file for each collector:

> FUP CREATE data-filename [ , create-param ]...

4. Run the spooler supervisor:

> SPOOL / IN control-filename , NAME $ supervisor-process /

5. Enter SPOOLCOM:

> SPOOLCOM

6. Specify the names and attributes of the collectors:

) COLLECT $ collector-name, DATA data-filename

Note. Cold starting a spooler subsystem is normally an infrequent task that you perform prima-

rily in emergency situations. Before you perform a cold start, make certain that this is the

appropriate operation.