monitoring printers with Nagios
Subhendu Ghosh
sghosh at sghosh.org
Thu Jul 7 15:48:16 CEST 2005
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Scott Doenges wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> First post on this list, please excuse my noobisms.
>
> We are interested in using Nagios to monitor printers in our building, and
> have it tell us when a printer is reporting out of paper/toner, etc.
>
> What would be the best way to do this? SNMP? Or can you monitor via IPP,
> which can report these different alert states?
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>
> thanks,
> Scott
>
SNMP is the easiest. if you have HP JetDirect, try check_hpjd,
otherwise try check_snmp_printer in contrib.
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-sg
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