[Nagiosplug-help] How can I check printers?

[Dan Stromberg]

You could probably use rlpq for printers that are accessed using
standard unix protocols, but keep in mind that some printers are so bad
at multitasking that your checks will confuse the printer.  Older HP's
in particular come to mind.

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 00:29, Tom DE BLENDE wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For printers you can use:
> 
> * check_hpjd for HP printers with a JetDirect card (comes with the
> main plugin dist).
> * check_snmp_printer.pl by Mister Ghosh
> (http://guinness.cs.stevens-tech.edu/~sghosh/netsaint/).
> * check_axis.sh to check Axis print server boxes (see attached).
> * check_ms_spooler.pl by Mister Hopcroft
> (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/nagiosplug/nagiosplug/contrib/).
> 
> This list is more than likely not complete. It covers most of what we
> have (and that's a lot), but still there are some printers that I can
> only ping as well.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Tom
> 
> > Timo Koskela wrote:
> > 
> > Is there someway to monitor printers? There are cases in where
> > printers are connected straight to linux or windows computer
> > and that computer works as a lpd (daemon), and some printers are
> > connected directly to network. Pinging isn't enough, there was one
> > case when the ping was working ok, but printer was totally jammed.
> > Is there some plugins already which I can use, I have to say that I
> > haven't noticed...
> > Thanks,
> > Timo Koskela
> > Finland
-- 
Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI <strombrg at dcs.nac.uci.edu>

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