HP Network Printer

[James Pratt]

Hi Martyn.

 

I'm not sure why check_hpjd did not get compiled on your system. It
appears you need at least net-snmp, and probably net-snmp-devel packages
at least, as here is what is on my system:

 

$ rpm -qa | grep snmp

 

net-snmp-libs-5.3.1-24.el5_2.2

net-snmp-utils-5.3.1-24.el5_2.2

net-snmp-5.3.1-24.el5_2.2

net-snmp-devel-5.3.1-24.el5_2.2

net-snmp-perl-5.3.1-24.el5_2.2

 

Have you checked for those packages installed, as they are not installed
by Nagios, and depending on your linux distro, may not be in the default
setup..

 

I have it on mine,  but I use lots of SNMP, so it's no surprise.. I
don't see any option for checking toner, but maybe that's a different
check... (?)

 

$ ./check_hpjd --help

check_hpjd v1991 (nagios-plugins 1.4.13)

Copyright (c) 1999 Ethan Galstad <nagios at nagios.org>

Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Nagios Plugin Development Team

        <nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>

 

This plugin tests the STATUS of an HP printer with a JetDirect card.

Net-snmp must be installed on the computer running the plugin.

 

 

Usage:check_hpjd -H host [-C community]

 

Options:

 -h, --help

    Print detailed help screen

 -V, --version

    Print version information

 -C, --community=STRING

    The SNMP community name (default=public)

 

Send email to nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net if you have questions

regarding use of this software. To submit patches or suggest
improvements,

send email to nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net

 

--

 

 

Regards,

Jamie

 

From: Martyn [mailto:martyn at chetnet.co.uk] 
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 6:42 PM
To: James Pratt; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] HP Network Printer

 

James thanks for the reply, looks like there are many users with the
same issue as me,
http://osdir.com/ml/network.nagios.plugins/2006-11/msg00062.html

 

The reason I want to use check_hpjd is because it reports back the toner
levels too.

 

I have spent the last 5 hours on Google and can not find any fix, does
this group know of a fix at all or do you think its a bug?

 

Thanks

 

________________________________

From: James Pratt [mailto:jpratt at norwich.edu] 
Sent: 02 February 2009 20:19
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net; martyn at chetnet.co.uk
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] HP Network Printer

Sorry Palle, I meant to reply to the list!.. my bad... :-(

 

From: James Pratt 
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 3:16 PM
To: 'Palle L Jensen'
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] HP Network Printer

 

Hi, I found this on a quick google - I use snmp extensively. (Check_snmp
is fairly worthless - I use the ones at http://nagios.manubulon.com
instead...

 

 

http://osdir.com/ml/network.nagios.user/2003-01/msg00028.html

 

HTH

 

Regards,

jamie

 

From: Palle L Jensen [mailto:palleje at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 3:00 PM
To: 'Martyn'; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] HP Network Printer

 

Martyn,

 

I have noticed people monitoring other stuff on printers using the SNMP
protocoll. However, since we have that protocol disabled I have no
experience in that. If you just want to make sure it is up and running
you could use the check_ping. Assuming it's a network printer with
enabled NIC.

 

Thanks,

PJ

 

________________________________

From: Martyn [mailto:martyn at chetnet.co.uk] 
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 1:13 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] HP Network Printer

 

Update, but I'm still getting "Error in packet ( ) " in my printer
status 

I can walk the Mibs with snmpwalk -v 1 -c public 192.168.3.252 and see
all the relevant outputs but when I do the following: -

./check_snmp -H 192.168.3.252 -C public 

I get SNMP problem - No Data received from host 
CMD /usr/bin/snmpget -t 1 -r5 -m ' ' -v 1 [authpriv] 192.168.3.252:161 

Hope you can help 

_____________________________________________ 
From:   Martyn [mailto:martyn at chetnet.co.uk
<mailto:martyn at chetnet.co.uk> ] 
Sent:   02 February 2009 17:33 
To:     'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net' 
Subject:        HP Network Printer 

Just looking to start and monitor an HP 2600n printer and have come
across the following statement in the quick start guide

The check_hpjd plugin will only get compiled and installed if you have
the net-snmp and net-snmp-utils 
packages installed on your system. Make sure the plugin exists in
/usr/local/nagios/libexec before you 
continue. If it doesn't, install net-snmp and net-snmp-utils and
recompile/reinstall the Nagios plugins. 

OK do these get installed when you download and compile
nagios-plugins-1.4.11.tar.gz or do I have to grab then separately, I
have looked through my nagios/libexec directory and noticed that
check_snmp is in there but not the above two.

Where would I get hold of the two files as described 

Thanks for your continued support 

Martyn 

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