[mrtg] Re: HP LaserJet Printers

[Jeff Liebermann]

On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 08:46:25PM -0500, Jim Hunt wrote:
> 
> Has anyone worked on using MRTG to gather statistics on HP JetDirect cards
> in HP printers?  Specifically 5si, 4000, 4500, 8000, 4050, and the old 4
> series.  I have about 300 of them - Ugh!

What statistics do you want to monitor on these printers?
Measuring the network traffic in and out is rather boreing.
It's much more interesting to count pages printed, or
set off traps when they almost run out of paper.  Another
is whether they are online of offline.  The trick is to
find the OID's worth monitoring.  See:
	ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/networking/software/
and look for the archives that start with "mib..." for
the MIB files.  Then use a MIB browser (i.e. GetIF 2.2)
to browse the mib tree and look for interesting stuff.

Also see:
	http://www.wtcs.com/snmp4tpc/mibs.htm#HP
for additional sources of HP printer mibs.



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