På Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:48:17 +0100, skrev Petter Reinholdtsen
<[email protected]>:
[Bjarne Nielsen]
What about tjener:631?
As in the TCP port is listening? I believe we are already checking
that. How often does cups fail to listen to that port, compared to
other problems with the printing system?
I am hoping we can montor and report disabled printers, printers out
of paper and stuff like that. :) What kind of printer problems do the
schools experience?
I ment what about the information you get from tjener:631. On the default
startpage for http://tjener, you click on the link "printer
administration". This gets you to tjener:631 where you get an overview of
printers, can check status, printjobs, delete jobs etc. For most school
admins this is sufficient, or actually better, as they can use it for
fixing the problems too. For remote admins I suppose nagios check would be
better. Printers out of paper, printing disabled and printer not reachable
would be nice to monitor, and maybe a "last successful print job" report(?)
One common printing problems is printers stopping because of a failed
print job. This is caused by "ErrorPolicy stop-printer" beeing default
setting when adding new printers. I think it should be ErrorPolicy
abort-job by default, but that's not really a nagios check issue...
Haven't checked if this is default now.
Bjarne
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