Distribution Status 

Use

After you have distributed a Printer Group to a Target System Group, you should check the outcome of this operation (Distribution Status) immediately to make sure the distribution was successful. You can check the distribution status anytime - provided the connection to the Target Systems is working. To open the distribution status for all PAL Objects, simply click Distribution Status. To check the status for one single PAL Object, select the PAL Object first and then click Distribution Status.

 

Activities

If you want to display the distribution status for one specific PAL Printer, for example, you select the PAL Printer from the PAL Object List and click Distribution Status. A dialog box will appear which shows the Printer Group, including all members, the Target System Groups including all Target Systems, and the distribution status. Column Remarks shows the detailed result of the last distribution, the result of a modification in SPAD, or the outcome of a grouping in PAL (adding or removing a PAL Printer to or from a Printer Group), for example:

 

Distributed successfully.

Need to be removed. Printer has been marked for removal. Re-distribution required.

Printer has been modified on Central System. Re-distribution required.

Printer not yet distributed. Re-distribution required.

 

The following error happens when you try to distribute a Printer Group to a Target System Group which contains a Target System from which one of the PAL Printers in the Printer Group has been retrieved:

 

  Distribution failed. Printer “XX” already exists in the central system as non-PAL Printer

 

Read chapter Retrieving an Output Device from a Target System for information about how to proceed.

 

In some cases, re-distribution is necessary. For example, when a PAL Printer has been added to or deleted from a Printer Group which is distributed to a Target System Group, the Target Systems in this Target System Group must be ‘notified’ about the changes.

For more information and examples, see Re-Distributing a Printer Group to a Target System Group.