check_hpjd gripes.

[Stein Bjørndal]

Hi all,

We've been using Nagios for monitoring our network for quite some time and
also some time back started using check_hpjd for monitoring printers. That
works just fine, but as it stands now the printer may well be out of service
without an alarm being raised. That is mostly due to exhausted supplies
(toner or fuser kit). The status string reports the condition just fine,
it's just that status is still OK so nobody is made aware of the situation.

As an added complication, the strings reported here are not in English
(national language set on printer). So ideally I'd like a set of strings
that will set the status of the check to WARNING (aka "TONER LOW") and
another set of strings that will raise an alarm (aka "REPLACE FUSER KIT"). 

Raising an alarm when supplies is running low would be useful to avoid
service interuption while not having to stock supplies since we could order
new when a warning is raised.

It would be interesting to hear how others are handling this, I'm hazarding
a guess that this must have been discussed before, but were unable to find
anything relevant in the list archives.

Regards,
Stein


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