Chapter 5 Creating/Configuring Supervisors and Physical Printers

The procedures in this chapter describe how to complete initial configuration activities for HPDPS supervisors and the physical printers they control, using the command line interface.

The supervisor is a server that runs under HP-UX and manages the printing process. The supervisor manages and controls physical printers, which you configure to represent your printer devices. You install the HPDPS supervisor on the system to which the printer devices are locally attached, either serially or parallel. A network printer can be managed by any supervisor.

	NOTE: In the DCE Extended Environment, you must have DCE read, write, and delete permissions for the supervisor to use the pdcreate command as described in this chapter. You must have DCE read and write permissions for the objects to use the pdset and pdenable commands. See Chapter 8, Chapter 8 “Managing DCE Security for HPDPS ”, for further information. In the Basic Environment, you must be logged in as root to perform these tasks. For more information, see “The Basic Environment ” in Chapter 1.