HPDPS System Management Interfaces

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.

SAM provides extensive, context-sensitive online help. This includes several tutorials that explain HPDPS concepts.

SAM does not provide any support for managing initial value objects, HPDPS error logs, or notification profiles. (Error logs are covered in Chapter 12 “Using HPDPS Error Logs ” while notification profiles are explained in Chapter 7 “Using Notification”.) Use the command line interface to manage these objects.

SAM is not a true monitoring tool. SAM does show you the current status of your HPDPS environment, but the data SAM displays does not get updated automatically when events occur in the print environment.