Can I monitor printer status with nagios?

[Mister IT Guru]

On 08/01/2011 10:08, Paul Williamson wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2011, at 5:04 AM, "Mister IT Guru"<misteritguru at gmx.com>  wrote:
>
>> A thought struck me yesterday, we have a bucket load of printers, and I
>> was wondering, can nagios tell when a printer is running low on ink, or
>> something similar, so that our teams can become proactive when fixing
>> printer jams, and replacing ink and paper etc.
>>
>> It's just a thought:)
>>
> Yes.  Use the check_snmp module and anything other than an "ok" is returned, it can be alerted upon.
Now this reply was just too quick! Thank you, I'll investigate snmp on 
my printers :)

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