<!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"><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: 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" } LI.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman" } DIV.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman" } A:link { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } SPAN.MsoHyperlink { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } A:visited { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } SPAN.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } P { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; 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-reply } DIV.Section1 { page: Section1 } </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY lang=EN-US vLink=blue link=blue> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>I think it may be a bug because if I use 'public' I get the "error in packet", if I use anything with less that 6 characters I get the same error, if I use public1 or anything with more than 6 characters I just get host time outs.</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>check_ping works fine</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: Palle L Jensen [mailto:palleje@gmail.com] Sent: 02 February 2009 20:00 To: 'Martyn'; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] HP Network Printer </DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=Section1> 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 tabIndex=-1 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></BODY></HTML>