In NetWare® Administrator, administrators can configure event notification for interested parties, that is, users you wish to be notified of a defined printer or server event that occurs during the processing and printing of a job.
For example, the administrator for a specific printer (by default a Manager of that printer) can designate an Operator to be notified if the printer runs out of paper or if the toner is low.
In NetWare Administrator, administrators can configure two types of event notification:
Job-owner notification. In NetWare Administrator, you can configure event notification for job owners only through the printer's Configuration dialog. When notification is part of a configuration, the owner of a job submitted to a printer with that configuration will receive the notification specified. For more information, see Configuring Job-Owner Notification.
At the workstation, individual users can use the Novell® Printer Manager to configure event notification pertaining to their own jobs.
Interested-party notification. In NetWare Administrator, you can use the Access Control Notification feature to configure notification to be sent to a printer's Managers, Operators, or other interested parties about specified events, normally those that require intervention of some kind.
Because this feature is tied to the Printer Access Control feature, it allows you to restrict the list of individuals who will be receiving this notification as narrowly as you wish. For more information, see Configuring Interested-Party Notification.
The availability of the following delivery options are dependent on which of them you have enabled (see Enabling Event Notification Delivery Methods). Pop-up notification. Messages will pop up on the screen of individuals designated to receive them. Users designated for pop-up notification must have a default server defined in their User Environment specified in NetWare Administrator. They also must be currently authenticated to that server or they will not receive notification. GroupWise® notification. E-mail messages will be sent to the recipient through GroupWise, the Novell scheduling and messaging system. For detailed information, see Enabling GroupWise Notification. MHS notification. E-mail messages will be sent to the recipient through MHS (Message Handling Service). SMTP notification. Messages will be sent to the recipient through SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) in IP-based systems. Log file notification. Messages are written to a file at a designated location on a NetWare server that the recipient has rights to. This is especially useful for keeping a record of printing events for auditing purposes (such as job completions, how often the toner ran out, etc.). Programmatic notification methods. Two programmatic notification delivery methods are shipped with NDPS: SPXTM and RPC. Third-party notification methods. The open architecture of Novell Distributed Print ServicesTM (NDPSTM) allows third parties to develop additional delivery methods.Delivery Methods