On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:56 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I am affilicted with a number of HP Laserjet 2015 network printers.
We have a bunch. Pray you never get a paper jam in the bypass tray path. (You have to strip the thing down to the main frame to get to it.) > Is there a command line by which I can: > 1. Switch it from DHCP to static address? Command line? Hmmm, you used to be able to Telnet to JetDirect cards, but it appears that's not available anymore. Only ports open are HTTP, NetBIOS, LPR, and 9100. They are SNMP manageable. You might be able to do something with an SNMP command line tool. HP JetDirect Web Manager, or whatever it's called, had some functionality for bulk changes, automation, and the like. The thing became so bloated I haven't used it in years, but it might be good for you. > When these things decided to change IP addresses, it's a royal PITA > (including needing to re-boot m desktop machine to get the management app to > run) to change it back. We used to use static addresses for all our printers, until we discovered the P2015's have a distributing tendency to occasionally spontaneously loose their NVRAM settings and revert to factory defaults. Now use DHCP reservations for everything, so even when NVRAM is lost, we can still find them at the correct IP address (and they usually keep working in the meantime). You might go that route. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
