monitoring printers with Nagios

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Scott Doenges wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> First post on this list, please excuse my noobisms.
>
> We are interested in using Nagios to monitor printers in our building, and 
> have it tell us when a printer is reporting out of paper/toner, etc.
>
> What would be the best way to do this?  SNMP?  Or can you monitor via IPP, 
> which can report these different alert states?
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>
> thanks,
> Scott
>

SNMP is the easiest. if you have HP JetDirect, try check_hpjd,
otherwise try check_snmp_printer in contrib.

-- 
-sg


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