Printer monitoring tool

[nandam]

Hi can y ou please give me printer monitoring tool. we have around 147 HP Printerd we have to monitor printer qu... and printer states.

Thanks
Nandam

[Jonathan Fife]

The only 'tools' I use are different versions of the lpstat command --

lpstat -p | grep disabled
lpstat -o | grep -v bytes

etc...

'man lpstat' and look at the different arguments.

[Rick Garland]

What kind of monitoring are you looking for?
Lots of ideas for monitoring.

Attached is 1 idea for monitoring. Will check the print queues for print jobs that are over a specified age.

The attached script is looking for jobs over 6 hrs old. You can change to whatever you like. Do check the email address. Change to your's.

Make whatever changes you like.

[Rick Garland]

What occurred to me as I was posting this, depending on the types of printers you could snmpwalk for specific values to get such items as "out of paper", "offline" "paper jam", etc.

The Web JetAdmin product can provide this and more. Integrates with HPSIM.

Again, depends on the printer types

[Geoff Wild]

Here's a script I use called lpst:


#!/bin/sh
#
# check printer status
# Geoff Wild

if [ $# -lt 1 -o \( $# -gt 1 -a $# -lt 4 \) ]
then
echo "Usage:"
echo "lpst \"printer\""
echo "Example:"
echo "lpst W052"
exit 1
fi
echo " "
/usr/sbin/ping $1 -n 2
echo " "
lpstat -p$1 -v$1
echo " "
echo "Output Requests"
echo "-----------------------------------------------------------"
lpstat -o$1
echo " "
lpstat -r
echo " "

Rgds...Geoff