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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
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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 .
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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
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