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STATE - Change the status of a printer

The tacpadm STATE allows you to change the status of a printer. You can:

  • disable a printer or re-enable a disabled printer

  • establish or terminate the connection to a printer.


tacpadm     STATE

            ,CID=cid

            ,ACT={ ON | OFF | CON | DIS | DISOFF }

            [ ,CTERM=ltermname ]


STATE

Changes the status of a printer

CID=cid

(control-ID)
Printer ID of the printer whose status is to be changed

ACT=

Action to be performed, mandatory operand.


ON

Re-enable a disabled printer


OFF

Disable a printer, i.e. it is no longer possible to establish a connection to this printer. If the printer is still connected at the time, the connection will be terminated.

In UTM cluster applications, ON and OFF apply globally to the cluster.


CON

Establish a connection to a printer


DIS

Terminate the connection to a printer


DISOFF

Terminate the connection to a printer and disable the printer.

CTERM=ltermname



Name of the printer control LTERM to which the printer is assigned. If the command is not entered at this printer control LTERM, the user who started the procedure must have administration privileges.

Default: 
Name of the LTERM partner at which the command was entered

Result

openUTM returns a message informing you whether the job has been accepted or rejected.