Hi, have you had a look at the Windows Counter, if there is a Value that will be interesting? The second way could be to 'Ping' the Printer and to use a Eventcorrelation Engine like openITCOCKPIT or NagiosBP?
Regards, Christian i.A. Christian Mies Senior Consultant Tel: +49 (661) 103-874 (-333) Fax: +49 (661) 103-17874 (-334) mailto:christian.m...@it-novum.com it-novum GmbH . Edelzeller Strasse 44 . 36043 Fulda . http://www.it-novum.com Handelsregister Amtsgericht Fulda, HRB 1934 . Geschäftsführer: Michael Kienle . Sitz der Gesellschaft: Fulda Der Inhalt dieser E-Mail ist vertraulich. Wenn Sie nicht der eigentliche Empfaenger sein sollten, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender oder vernichten umgehend diese Mail. Jegliche unerlaubte Vervielfaeltigung oder Weiterleitung dieser Mail ist strengstens verboten. This e-mail may contain confidential and/or priviledged information. If you are not the intended recepient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: James Osbourn [mailto:james.osbo...@citrix.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2011 13:40 An: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: [Nagios-users] monitor printer from Windows server I have a Windows 7 server acting as a print server and I would like to check the status of these printers and make sure that they are still online etc. I cannot seem to find a way of checking printers shared from a Windows machine, does anyone have any suggestions or references that I could use. Thanks James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
