User Guide

30 Novell Distributed Print Services Administration Guide
Novell Distributed Print Services Administration Guide
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August 31, 2001
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Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
The Event Notification service supports both consumers of events (users) and
suppliers of events (printers). Users can register with the ENS by identifying
the types of events they want to be notified about, while the printer can register
the kinds of events it is capable of reporting. For example, the administrator
for a specific printer (by default a Manager of that printer) can designate an
Operator to be notified if the printer runs out of paper or if the toner is low.
Similarly, users can be notified when their jobs have finished printing.
Delivery Methods
The availability of the following delivery options is dependent on which of
them you have enabled. (See “Enabling Event Notification Delivery
Methods” on page 97 for more information.)
 Pop-up notification. Messages will pop up on the screen for individuals
designated to receive them. (Pop-up notification is always enabled when
the ENS is enabled.)
 SMTP notification. Messages will be sent to the recipient through SMTP
(Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) in IP-based systems.
 Log file notification. Messages are written to a file at a designated
location on a NetWare server that the recipient has rights to.
 Programmatic notification. Two programmatic notification delivery
methods are shipped with NDPS: SPX
TM
and RPC.
The open architecture of NDPS allows third parties to develop additional
delivery methods as well.
NDPS is enabled to work with SNMP. In addition, some third-party gateways
are SNMP-enabled independently of the NDPS software.
For more information about other brokered services, see the following:
 “Understanding the Service Registry Service” on page 28
 “Understanding the Resource Management Service” on page 31