topic check status for printer in Operating System - HP-UX

check status for printer

pratapvfr — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:44:38 GMT

i have few hpux box which are using network perinter,
i want to write a small script which will check the printer status and if status is disable it will enable and send me email.

Re: check status for printer

avizen9 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:07:23 GMT

for enable and disable printer you need to use below commands.

enable
disable

if you want to get email you should have install sendmail in your hpux box.

for writting script i believe you can try with sell script in hpux, logic should be declair printer alias, and with if condition check the status for printer, at present i dont have any script but should try something this.
this may help.

thanks

Re: check status for printer

Suraj K Sankari — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:31:08 GMT

Hi,

Use lpstat -t

The "lpstat" command with the "-t" option gives you total information about the printer status. This option is generally the most useful, but the printout can be lengthy if you have a large number for printers configured.

From the output of the above command you can write a script as per your requirment.

Suraj

Re: check status for printer

pratapvfr — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:14:06 GMT

okey,
commands looks ok, but if will get some script then will be good,

Re: check status for printer

avizen9 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:03:18 GMT

HI,
you may try something below, if its work ok then add sendmail to get email, let us know how it goes, thanks,

printer=hplaserjet
printerstatus=`lpstat -p\`echo $printer\`|awk {'print $5'}`

if [ $printerstatus!= "enabled" ]
then
enable $printer
fi

Re: check status for printer

pratapvfr — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:28:56 GMT

ok, i have tried with it, looks fine, but not complete solusion which i require,

its shows printer satatus and also able to enable it.

how to get email when it enable? i am trying with sendmail, anyone can guide me for this.

Re: check status for printer

Dennis Handly — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:56:06 GMT

>how to get email when it enable?

Just change it to:
if [ $printerstatus != "enabled" ]; then
enable $printer
echo "printer enabled" | mailx -s "Enabling printer: $printer" mail@foo.com
fi

Re: check status for printer

avizen9 — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:46:59 GMT

also you can try with this

sendmail -F printername abcd@domain.com /etc/message.txt

here message.txt is the message which you want to send when printer will enable.

so here this sendmail line you need to write for each and every printer, hope this will help, let us know, thanks,

Re: check status for printer

pratapvfr — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:54:01 GMT

thanks for all your efford here, its work fine.