SMIT Help Information for Print Recovery

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Printer Intervention Selection

Specify the recovery mechanism for a print queue that has gone down.


Run Script

Run a user-defined script to recover a print queue.


Send Mail

Notify a particular user by e-mail when a specific queue goes down.


Retry

Enable the print queue after a period of time. When the print queue starts back up, the job which failed is tried again. This is particularly useful in cases where jobs fail due to a temporary condition that is resolved within the timeout specified.


PRINT QUEUE name

Specify the name of the print queue.


User Defined SCRIPT to invoke

Enter the full pathname of the user-defined script that should be run if this queue goes down.


USER to notify

Specify which user is to receive e-mail if this print queue goes down.


DELAY (in minutes)

Specify the number of minutes to wait before the print queue is restarted. The number of minutes must be a positive integer. If a zero is entered, the job is tried again after one minute.


Number of RETRIES

Enter the maximum number of attempts that the system should automatically make to re-enable a print queue that has gone down.