<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:v = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml"><HEAD><TITLE>RE: HP Network Printer</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.5659" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE>@font-face { font-family: Wingdings; } @font-face { font-family: Wingdings; } @font-face { font-family: Calibri; } @font-face { font-family: Tahoma; } @page Section1 {size: 8.5in 11.0in; margin: 1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; } P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman","serif" } LI.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman","serif" } DIV.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman","serif" } A:link { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; mso-style-priority: 99 } SPAN.MsoHyperlink { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; mso-style-priority: 99 } A:visited { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; mso-style-priority: 99 } SPAN.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; mso-style-priority: 99 } P { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-style-priority: 99; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto } SPAN.EmailStyle18 { FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: "Courier New"; TEXT-DECORATION: none; mso-style-type: personal } SPAN.EmailStyle19 { COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-style-type: personal } SPAN.EmailStyle20 { COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-style-type: personal-reply } .MsoChpDefault { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-style-type: export-only } DIV.Section1 { page: Section1 } </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY lang=EN-US vLink=blue link=blue> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>James thanks for the reply, looks like there are many users with the same issue as me, <A href="http://osdir.com/ml/network.nagios.plugins/2006-11/msg00062.html">http://osdir.com/ml/network.nagios.plugins/2006-11/msg00062.html</A></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>The reason I want to use check_hpjd is because it reports back the toner levels too.</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>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?</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>Thanks</DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> From: James Pratt [mailto:jpratt@norwich.edu] Sent: 02 February 2009 20:19 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net; martyn@chetnet.co.uk Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] HP Network Printer </DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=Section1> Sorry Palle, I meant to reply to the list!.. my bad… L<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: blue 1.5pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"> <DIV> <DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"> From: James Pratt Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 3:16 PM To: 'Palle L Jensen' Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] HP Network Printer<o:p></o:p></DIV></DIV> <o:p> </o:p> Hi, I found this on a quick google – I use snmp extensively. (Check_snmp is fairly worthless – I use the ones at <A href="http://nagios.manubulon.com">http://nagios.manubulon.com</A> instead…<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <A href="http://osdir.com/ml/network.nagios.user/2003-01/msg00028.html">http://osdir.com/ml/network.nagios.user/2003-01/msg00028.html</A><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> HTH<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Regards,<o:p></o:p> jamie<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: blue 1.5pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"> <DIV> <DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"> From: Palle L Jensen [mailto:palleje@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 3:00 PM To: 'Martyn'; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] HP Network Printer<o:p></o:p></DIV></DIV> <o:p> </o:p> Martyn,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 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.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thanks,<o:p></o:p> PJ<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: blue 1.5pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center> <HR align=center width="100%" SIZE=2> </DIV> From: Martyn [mailto:martyn@chetnet.co.uk] Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 1:13 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] HP Network Printer<o:p></o:p></DIV> <o:p> </o:p> Update, but I'm still getting "Error in packet ( ) " in my printer status <o:p></o:p> 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: -<o:p></o:p> ./check_snmp -H 192.168.3.252 -C public <o:p></o:p> 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 <o:p></o:p> Hope you can help <o:p></o:p> _____________________________________________ From: Martyn [<A href="mailto:martyn@chetnet.co.uk">mailto:martyn@chetnet.co.uk</A>] Sent: 02 February 2009 17:33 To: 'nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: HP Network Printer <o:p></o:p> Just looking to start and monitor an HP 2600n printer and have come across the following statement in the quick start guide<o:p></o:p> 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. <o:p></o:p> 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.<o:p></o:p> Where would I get hold of the two files as described <o:p></o:p> Thanks for your continued support <o:p></o:p> Martyn <o:p></o:p></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>