HP Printers

[Patrick Morris]

On Thu, 03 Jan 2008, svalding at kent.edu wrote:

> List,
> 
>   I want to start monitoring our network printers. I have Nagios 2.10
> installed with 1.4.10 plugins. I have configured one printer to test
> with and have it in nagios right now with just a ping service check. In
> testing the check_hpjd plugin from the terminal it gave me an output of
> ("Ready       "). The documentation states that it will monitor for open
> trays, low tonter, paper jams and things like that. Will the check_hpjd
> alert on those issues automatically because the only options I see in it
> are -H for hostname and -C community name? How do I go about checking
> just for say low  toner?

You don't need to do anything, but this is one of those things that's
very easy to test yourself.  Try pulling out all the paper or yanking a
toner cartridge.

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