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Specify the Accounting

In PLOSSYS Output Engine, accounting information about the jobs processed by PLOSSYS Output Engine can be viewed. The accounting data of PLOSSYS Output Engine is administrated and visualized by means of SEAL Elastic Stack. For more information, refer to the SEAL Elastic Stack documentation.

In the context of the accounting, the Accounting status is available for jobs.

The accounting data is written into the seal-plossys-accounting.log log file of the seal-plossys-accounting service. For the location of the log file, refer to Logging on Windows or Logging on Linux.

Activate accounting

The accounting is always activated. You cannot deactivate it.

By default, the keys from the following example are listed in the accounting data with PLOSSYS Output Engine.

Example - default accounting keys

  "metadata": {
    "accounting": {
      "metadata": {
        "jobID": "123-abc",
        "processID": "4712",
        "jobState": "completed",
        "sourceApplication": "PLOSSYS5",
        "deviceModel": "LaserJet"
      },
      "principals": {
        "printer": "printer1",
        "account": "Department 42",
        "endpoint": "socket://hp402:9100",
        "userID": "john.doe"
      },
      "resources": {
        "inputPages": [
          { "size": "ISOA4", "color": "monochrome", "count": 100 },
          { "size": "ISOA4", "color": "grayscale", "count": 1, "media": "glossy" },
          { "size": "ISOA4", "color": "color", "count": 100 }
        ],
        "outputPages": [
          { "size": "ISOA4", "color": "monochrome", "count": 120 },
          { "size": "ISOA4", "color": "grayscale", "count": 1, "media": "glossy" },
          { "size": "ISOA4", "color": "color", "count": 100 }
        ]
      }
    }
  }

Specify Additional Keys

Any job or printer key can be added to the accounting. Additionally, the following keys that are estimated by PLOSSYS Output Engine are available for the accounting:

  • job.completed.date Date part of the completed time as human-readable string (YYYY-MM-DD)
  • job.completed.time Time part of the completed time as human-readable string (hh-mm-ss)
  • job.completed.total Processing duration in milliseconds
  • job.checkin.date Date part of the checkin time as human-readable string (YYYY-MM-DD)
  • job.checkin.time Time part of the checkin time as human-readable string (hh-mm-ss)
  • job.origPrinterName Original printer name
  • job.hostname Server name

This is how you add a key to the accounting:

  1. In the configuration of the seal-plossys-accounting service, specify the additional keys with the following service key:

    • ACCOUNTING: Customer-specific additional keys for accounting specified as JSON object

    Example - customized accounting configuration in Consul

    {
  "printerModel": "printer.type.model",
  "printerBrand": "printer.type.manufacturer",
  "server": "job.hostname",
  "completedDate": "job.completed.date",
  "completedTime": "job.completed.time",
  "totaltimeTaken": "job.completed.total",
}

  2. Restart the seal-plossys-accounting service. When configuring the key via Consul, the seal-plossys-accounting service will be restarted automatically.

    plossys service start seal-plossys-accounting

Specify the Lifetime of Jobs in the Accounting Status

  1. In the configuration of the seal-housekeeper service, specify the lifetime with the following service key:

  2. Restart the seal-housekeeper service. When configuring the key via Consul, the seal-housekeeper service will be restarted automatically.

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