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Allows the system administrator to:
• define the print servers for tracking purposes
• configure server Queue-based printer objects

Allows the financial administrator to:
• create and modify user, department and billing code 

accounts

• perform account transactions
• produce reports on printer and account activity
• set up automated database maintenance events

The following diagram illustrates one way to configure PAS compo-
nents and administrative applications on your network:

Figure 1-1:  PAS and NetWare components on a network 

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The SM Printer Gateway performs two functions on the NetWare 
server: printer control and printer tracking.

On a NetWare server, the SM Printer Gateway monitors and con-
trols printing activity. It prevents unauthorized users from access-
ing network printers. When the SM Printer Gateway receives a 
print request, it checks with the accounting server to ensure that 
the user sending the request has a valid printing account. The 
accounting server checks the PAS database for the administrator-
defined list of valid printing accounts and indicates when print jobs 
are authorized to proceed.

The SM Printer Gateway also monitors printing traffic to determine 
the size and attributes—such as page color, page size, and so on—
of each print job. This detailed information is passed back to the 
accounting server service. Based on the print job’s page count and 
document attributes, and the administrator-defined costs assigned 
to the destination printer, the accounting server calculates printing 
charges and levies them against the appropriate printing account.

The following diagram illustrates how PAS, NetWare and printing 
components interact when a print request is generated from a net-
work workstation so that printing is tracked in the PAS database:

Figure 1-2:  How PAS tracks a print request in the PAS database

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