HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 390)

Monitoring Hardware Components
Guardian User’s Guide — 425266-001
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Checking Printer and Collector Status
The data shown in the report means:
See Table 19-2 on page 19-6 for more information about the possible states of tape
drives and other devices.
For additional information about tape operations and the tasks you can perform, see
Section 10, Using Labeled Tapes .
Example
To obtain status information about the tape drive $TAPE1 by using SCF, enter:
> SCF STATUS TAPE $TAPE1
A listing such as this is sent to your home terminal:
Checking Printer and Collector Status
This subsection explains how to list the printers on your system and determine their
status. It also explains how to check the status of the spooler subsystem collector
processes, which accept output from applications and store the output on a disk.
Checking Printer Status
To check the status of all printers on your system with the SPOOLCOM utility, enter:
> SPOOLCOM DEV
A listing similar to this is sent to your home terminal:
“WAITING” in the STATE column indicates that the printer is available to print users’
jobs. See
Section 14, Performing Routine Spooler Operations Using Spoolcom , for more
information about using Spoolcom.
LDev The logical device number
State The current SCF state of the tape path
SubState The current SCF substate of the tape path
Primary PID The primary CPU number and process identification number (PIN) of the
specified device
Backup PID The backup CPU number and process identification number (PIN) of the
specified device
DeviceStatus The status of the device path
STORAGE - Status TAPE $TAPE1
LDev State SubState Primary Backup DeviceStatus
PID PID
48 STOPPED DOWN 0,274
DEVICE STATE FLAGS PROC FORM
\SAGE.$S1 WAITING H $SPLX
\SAGE.$S2 WAITING H $SPLX
\AMBER.$S WAITING H $SPLP
\AMBER.$S2 WAITING H $SPLX