Canon Printer monitoring

[Izz Abdullah]

SNMP is enabled, public is the community.  I changed the title of this email (too many vendors I have to keep up with) :)

Thanks,
Izz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagiosusers at edcint.co.nz
> Sent: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:55:04 +1000
> To: izz_abdullah at inbox.com
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Compaq Printer monitoring
> 
> If the community string, in your case "public", is incorrect, this is
> enough to generate a timeout.
> Additionally, if the printer does not even have SNMP capability, you
> will also get a timeout.
> You'll need to check the printer firmware config.
> 
> Why have you titled this message "Compaq Printer Monitoring" and yet
> provided the config for a "Canon iRC3380"? Perhaps you are getting your
> printers mixed up?
> 
> Izz Abdullah wrote:
>> I am using Nagios 3.0.1 on RHEL 4 to monitor various Windows and linux /
>> Unix flavors.  I have setup to monitor a network printer via SNMP and I
>> get the following result on printer status (PING is ok):
>> 
>> Error in packet : Timeout from host 172.24.50.102
>> 
>> Below is the printer.cfg (without the PING definition since it works):
>> 
>> define host{
>>  use          generic-printer
>>  host_name    satyam_canon3380
>>  alias        Canon iRC3380
>>  address      172.24.50.102
>>  hostgroups   network-printers
>> }
>> 
>> define hostgroup{
>>  hostgroup_name  network-printers
>>  alias           Network Printers
>> }
>> 
>> define service{
>>  use                    generic-service
>>  host_name              satyam_canon3380
>>  service_description    Printer Status
>>  check_command          check_hpjd!-C public
>>  normal_check_interval  10
>>  retry_check_interval   1
>> }
>> 
>> I would appreciate any enlightenment from the group.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Izz
>> 
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