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Usage considerations by DSS for accounting information, pdaccount, Attention, does not, AIX DSS
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to summarize the data. You might want to use the pdaccount command to find and process the information and summarize it, store the summaries in a different location, and then delete the logs. Attention: Requesting information for all accounting records can consume a lot of the server's memory since all the data is read into memory to be sent to you. If you have a lot of data to retrieve, you should consider requesting it for smaller time periods and concatenating the returned data. For example, to retrieve all the accounting records for a one month period, you could issue four pdaccount commands like this: v pdaccount -t all -s '00:00:00 03/01/00' -e '00:00:00 03/08/00' Server A >March1.accting.data v pdaccount -t all -s '00:00:00 03/08/00' -e '00:00:00 03/15/00' Server A >March2.accting.data v pdaccount -t all -s '00:00:00 03/15/00' -e '00:00:00 03/22/00' Server A >March3.accting.data v pdaccount -t all -s '00:00:00 03/22/00' -e '00:00:00 03/31/00' Server A >March4.accting.data Usage considerations by DSS for accounting information This section contains more information about server accounting information by DSS. It also gives suggestions for working with the various DSSs when using the accounting information in InfoPrint Manager. In general, InfoPrint Manager logs jobs that complete or are paused, cancelled, or are cleaned while being processed by the actual destination. InfoPrint Manager does not log jobs that are not completed when the printer is shut down because of a printer problem, but puts them back in the queue. AIX DSS | v If wait-for-job-completion is set to True and the job completes | successfully or is paused or cancelled, then the page count shown in the | accounting log is the number of pages stacked at the printer. For | example, a three-page document printed simplex records three pages in | the accounting log and three pages are stacked; a four-page document | printed duplex records four pages in the accounting log even though | only two sheets are stacked. Depending on the printer and the backend | used, jobs held at the printer log zero pages completed. | Note: If your physical printer has a time-out setting, make sure it is | disabled when you specify True or Yes for wait-for-job-completion. v If wait-for-job-completion is set to False, the page count is not based on the number of pages stacked on the printer. In this case, InfoPrint Manager uses these methods to calculate a page count: 1. The printer backend can return a non-zero page count that is based on the number of pages it is sending to the printer. If this number is returned, InfoPrint Manager uses it for the page count that is reported in the accounting log. 2. If the printer backend returns a zero for the page count and if the user has specified a job-page-count with the job, InfoPrint Manager reports that page count in the accounting log. 3. If the printer backend returns a zero for the page count and the user has not specified a job-page-count and the job is PCL, PDF or 102 InfoPrint Manager for AIX: Procedures