Check for HP Printers

[Dan Stromberg]

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 10:41, Brian Hendrix wrote:
> Dan,
>  
> Can you elaborate on the last part of your message:
> lpq/rlpq | egrep 'this|that|theotherthing'

I meant to say you could use either lpq or rlpq, and pipe their output
to egrep to check for magic strings.  rlpr and rlpq are cool - worth
being aware of, even if you don't have an immediate need.

> I have been a Unix Administrator for 11 years and understand the
> command, just not the context of how it would be run in relation to
> check_tcp.
>  
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> >>> Dan Stromberg <strombrg at dcs.nac.uci.edu> 1/21/2004 11:14:39 AM >>>
> On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 08:35, Brian Hendrix wrote:
> > I've looked through several websites and still not having any
> success.
> > Is there plugin for monitoring HP printers? I am running Nagios on
> > RedHat Linux Enterprise v3.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > 
> 
> I'd probably do no more than ping an HP printer. The ones I've had
> experience with did a horrible job of multitasking. One would even
> consistently freeze up if I just telnet'd to 9000 on it.
> 
> But if you want to see if it works (hey, maybe they've improved, it's
> been a while), you could probably check_tcp 515 and/or 9000. Or even
> lpq/rlpq | egrep 'this|that|theotherthing'.
> 
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