Problem with Konica and Canon printer

Adam Sweet adam at adamsweet.org
Thu May 5 00:41:02 CEST 2011


On 04/05/11 21:59, Andre Tann wrote:
> Hello Giorgio,
> 
> Giorgio Zarrelli, Mittwoch 04 Mai 2011: 
> 
>> Imagine the OID as as dotted "address" string (like 1.3.6.x.x.x.x.x). Each
>> OID points to a value and what that value does mean is described into a
>> collection called MIB.
> 
> OK, I understand this.
> 
> 
>> So, find the right MIBs for your printers, look into them, point out the
>> correct OIDS and then, using snmpget, you can query the printers for the
>> values you need.
> 
> Is there any good site where one can find those MIB tables? I was
> googling for quite a while now, but everything I could find was that
> the manufacturers don't give out any information on what OID means what,
> and all you can do is guess. So no MIB for my canon nor my konica yet,
> and guessing is not so easy.

Take a look at Transitiv's check_snmp_printer.pl check:

http://www.transitiv.co.uk/resources-page/nagios-plugins

It is designed to work with RFC 1759 compliant SNMP printers. Most SNMP
printers should support it to some degree.

Regards,

Adam Sweet

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