Check_hpjd [SOLVED]ish

[John Alexson]

On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 09:44 +0000, Mister IT Guru wrote:
> On 10/01/2011 16:42, Paul Williamson wrote: 
> > From: James Moseley [mailto:jmoseley at corp.xanadoo.com] 
> > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:28 AM
> > To: Nagios Users List
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Check_hpjd
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Mister IT Guru
> > <misteritguru at gmx.com> wrote:
> > 
> >          
> >         
> >         
> >         I'm pretty sure that the SNMP on my printers is working. Is
> >         it included with this printer, because I specifically
> >         configured it, and looked out for SNMP support before
> >         ordering these printers, to use with Nagios. I know that my
> >         device returns data, because it does for snmp queries from
> >         the CLI. I would like to know, how I can get check_hpjd to
> >         be more verbose, or to log if that is possible?
> >         
> >         Thank You
> >         
> >         
> > 
> > You stated earlier in this thread that your printer supports SNMP as
> > evidence that you were able to walk the standard MIB tree.  That's
> > great, but that doesn't mean that your hardware and current software
> > supports the SNMP MIB that the plugin is trying to use.
> > 
> > That's why I suggested making sure you have the latest firmware/SNMP
> > support from HP installed on the printer.
> > 
> > The plugin states that it works with HP printers that have JetDirect
> > cards installed.  Does yours?
> > 
> > 
> 
> Please forgive my stupidness - I believed that all networked HP
> printers had JetDirect support, I now know better! Square peg, Round
> hole situation it seems. My talents as a coder, are yet to be
> realised, so please forgive me if I refrain from updating or
> customizing the plugin! I will have to find another way to monitor my
> printer status.
> 

Just a bit of friendly advice . . . You may want to reconsider your
position on updating or customizing plugins.  While it may be possible
to find plugins that do exactly what you want in your particular
environment with no modifications, it's going to be unnecessarily
difficult and often frustrating.  And it's certainly going to limit your
choices of plugins, and thus the power and flexibility of Nagios. You
may even find that the coding skills required to fix/tweak/tune/etc a
plugin for your particular setup *might* be quite minimal. 



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