Novell® Distributed Print ServicesTM (NDPSTM ) printers can be configured to provide event notification regarding print jobs and printer status. In NetWare® Administrator, administrators can configure event notification for interested parties, that is, non-job-owners that you wish to be notified of a defined printer or server event that occurs during the processing and printing of a job. (See Configuring Interested-Party Notification.) At the workstation, individual users can use the Novell Printer Manager to configure event notification pertaining to their own jobs only. (See Configuring Job-Owner Notification.)
The Event Notification service supports both consumers of events (users) and suppliers of events (printers). Users can register with the ENS by identifying the types of events they want to be notified about, while the printer can register the kinds of events it is capable of reporting. 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. Similarly, users can be notified when their jobs have finished printing.
The availability of the following delivery options is dependent on which of them you have enabled. (See Enabling Event Notification Delivery Methods for more information.)
Pop-up notification. Messages will pop up on the screen for individuals designated to receive them. (Pop-up notification is always enabled when the ENS is enabled.)
GroupWise® notification. Messages will be sent to the recipient through GroupWise, the Novell industry-leading scheduling and messaging system.
MHS notification. Messages will be sent to the recipient through MHS.
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.
Programmatic notification. Two programmatic notification delivery methods are shipped with NDPS: SPXTM and RPC.
The open architecture of NDPS allows third parties to develop additional delivery methods as well.
NOTE: NDPS is enabled to work with SNMP. In addition, some third-party gateways are SNMP-enabled independently of the NDPS software.
For more information about other brokered services, see the following:
For information about other major NDPS components, see the following: