using SNMP to fetch printer information

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Jeff Bilder wrote:

> I am testing a plugin to be able to monitor my HP Printers, but for
>some reason it doesn't seem to be sending out any SNMP packets.  I
>sniffed the network and didn't see any responses coming from the Nagios 
>server.  Is there a configuration option that needs to be compiled for 
>it to work correctly?  Thanks!
> 
> - Jeff

Nagios should be sending out the requests and the printers should be 
sending the responses..

BTW: Have you tried check_hpjd (HP JetDirect plugin)?
Requires snmpget to be present on the system.

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-sg



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