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Introducing HP Distributed Print Service
HPDPS System Management Interfaces
HPDPS System Management Interfaces
You can configure and manage your system by entering commands
directly on the command line or by using the System Administration
Manager (SAM). You will need an HPDPS client installed on your system
to use either interface.
Using the Command Line Interface
The HPDPS command line interface is POSIX-compliant and provides
complete configuration and monitoring capability. For detailed
information on the commands you can use to manage your system, see
HP Distributed Print Service User's Guide which fully describes the
command line interface.
Using the System Administration Manager (SAM)
The sam command starts a menu-driven program that many agree
makes it much easier to manage HPDPS than using the HPDPS
command line interface. Some of the advantages of using SAM are:
• Tasks are simpler to perform using SAM because you do not need to
remember the details of the command line interface. Also, many of
the tasks that SAM supports require the execution of multiple
commands, so by using SAM you don't have to remember all of the
steps in a task.
• SAM makes it easy to see the status of your entire HPDPS
environment. SAM understands the relationships between objects,
such as logical and physical printers assigned to a queue, and
provides mechanisms that make it easy for you to see these
relationships. Also, SAM provides the ability to represent all objects
as icons, with background colors used to highlight objects that are not
in a "ready" condition.
• SAM supports all of the tasks for managing spoolers, supervisors,
logical printers, physical printers and print queues. These tasks
include adding, modifying, removing, enabling, and disabling.
• SAM supports the most common tasks for managing jobs, including
pausing, resuming, resubmiting, promoting and removing.
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