Enabling Event Notification Delivery Methods

The Novell® Distributed Print ServicesTM (NDPSTM) Broker provides an Event Notification Service (ENS) that allows printers to send customizable notifications to users and operators about printer events and print job status. ENS supports a variety of delivery methods, including pop-up messages, log files, e-mail (GroupWise®, MHS, and SMTP) and programmatic. Third parties can also develop additional methods.

The Event Notification Service allows you to enable delivery methods such as e-mail and third-party methods not provided directly with NDPS. The executable files for these methods have an .enm extension (filename.enm) and must be added to the server\sys:system directory or another location in the server's search path.

For more information about Event Notification, see Understanding the Event Notification Service.

For specific information on enabling GroupWise notification, see Enabling GroupWise Notification.

  1. Be sure the Event Notification Service is enabled by going to your server console and viewing the Broker status screen.

  2. In NetWare® Administrator, select the Broker you want to work with.

    The Broker Identification page appears.

  3. Select the Event Notification view.

    The Broker's Notification dialog appears with a list of currently loaded methods.

  4. Click the Load or Unload button.

    The Load Notification Method dialog appears.

    WARNING:  Do not unload the RPC and SPXTM Programmatic Notification methods. These are needed for communication between printers and the workstation Printer Manager utility to occur and driver download to take place.

  5. Specify the ENM file name for the Notification method you want to load.

    This ENM must be in your server\sys:system directory or in another location in your server's search path in order to be loaded.

The Broker object will load this notification method automatically in the future.

See Enabling GroupWise Notification for information on enabling that method.