Watchdoc - Archive spools

Steps

Archiving spools of a print queue requires several configuration steps:

1. activation of spool archiving at Watchdoc level;

2. activation of archiving spools on the specific queue to be analyzed;

3. application of a rule allowing to specify the nature of the spools to be archived and the frequency of archiving.

Once the spools are collected, Watchdoc must be reconfigured as in its initial status, in order not to overstock the Archives file with useless spools.

Procedure

Configure the spools archiving

To configure the spools archiving:

1. access the Watchdoc^® administration interface as an administrator;

2. from the Main Menu, Configuration section, click on Advanced configuration;
   
   

 

3. In the Advanced configuration, click on Document archiving:
   
   
   
   

4. In the Archiving configuration interface:

   1. tick the Parametres box;

   2. in the Folder field,enter the path to the folder in wich you want to save the spools archives;

   3. tick the box Compress the archived documents.

5. Validate the archiving configuration by clicking on the button.
   
   

Configure the print queue

To configure the print queue:

1. from the Main Menu, Production section, click on Printing queues, queue groups & pools;

2. in the queues list, select the queue on which the most important gaps have been detected (a queue by driver);

3. click on the Edit properties button;

4. in the Queue properties, Archiving section, configure the spools archiving:

   1. tick the Use custom settings for this queue box;

   2. tick the Authorise temporary archive box;

   3. in the drop-down menus, select the spools archiving frequency:
      
      
      
      

5. click on the button to save the new queue configuration;

6. At the end or this configuration, the print-jobs are saved in the Watchdoc^® Archives folder.

 

Apply a rule

In order to allow Watchdoc^® to archive only certain print jobs, a rule should be applied to designate the print jobs involved in archiving:

1. from the queue management interface, click on the Policy tab;

2. click on the Edit button of the queue;

3. then select the Always predefined filter to catch all the documents;

4. select the Rules tab of the relevant print queue, then click on Edit :
   

5. In the Submit Document section, in the list of filters, select the Always predefined filter to capture all documents:
   
   

6. click on the button to validate the configuation on the queue;

7. Run a print job on this queue to check that the spool is correctly saved in the Watchdoc archive folder (C:\Program Files\Doxense\Watchdoc\Archives by default);

8. collect the spools files in the Archives folder in order to analyse them or to send them to the Doxense^® Support to be analysed.