Canon Printer monitoring

Matthew Jurgens nagiosusers at edcint.co.nz
Thu Jul 17 06:17:38 CEST 2008


There appears to be nothing wrong with what you are doing so far.

Can you send your command definition?
Can you make it work from the command line?

You might need to check your environment eg firewalls etc

Izz Abdullah wrote:
> SNMP is enabled, public is the community.  I changed the title of this email (too many vendors I have to keep up with) :)
>
> Thanks,
> Izz
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagiosusers at edcint.co.nz
>> Sent: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:55:04 +1000
>> To: izz_abdullah at inbox.com
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Compaq Printer monitoring
>>
>> If the community string, in your case "public", is incorrect, this is
>> enough to generate a timeout.
>> Additionally, if the printer does not even have SNMP capability, you
>> will also get a timeout.
>> You'll need to check the printer firmware config.
>>
>> Why have you titled this message "Compaq Printer Monitoring" and yet
>> provided the config for a "Canon iRC3380"? Perhaps you are getting your
>> printers mixed up?
>>
>> Izz Abdullah wrote:
>>     
>>> I am using Nagios 3.0.1 on RHEL 4 to monitor various Windows and linux /
>>> Unix flavors.  I have setup to monitor a network printer via SNMP and I
>>> get the following result on printer status (PING is ok):
>>>
>>> Error in packet : Timeout from host 172.24.50.102
>>>
>>> Below is the printer.cfg (without the PING definition since it works):
>>>
>>> define host{
>>>  use          generic-printer
>>>  host_name    satyam_canon3380
>>>  alias        Canon iRC3380
>>>  address      172.24.50.102
>>>  hostgroups   network-printers
>>> }
>>>
>>> define hostgroup{
>>>  hostgroup_name  network-printers
>>>  alias           Network Printers
>>> }
>>>
>>> define service{
>>>  use                    generic-service
>>>  host_name              satyam_canon3380
>>>  service_description    Printer Status
>>>  check_command          check_hpjd!-C public
>>>  normal_check_interval  10
>>>  retry_check_interval   1
>>> }
>>>
>>> I would appreciate any enlightenment from the group.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Izz
>>>
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