One other thing which may confuse some also in the last email, I referenced the following share path
\\server-name\winnt\system32\spool\printers which in reality won't be shared by default, therefore you could use (if your nt load is on c and your spool directory has not been changed from default location) \\server-name\c$\winnt\system32\spool\printers I have as an example 15 printers on an nt box, and I check the spool directory for 50+ files. Since we have high speed network printers, the only time I get an error is when a printer has stopped responding and NT is unable to spool the job from the server (i.e.: The printer is down) Of course servers alive "ping checks" each printer on each cycle, so even if jobs are not "stacking up" on the print server, I still know the printer is down as a separate check. You can also check the spooler service on the NT box, and make the spool directory countfiles check "dependant" on the spooler service, just to add another level of redundancy. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Anderson Jr., Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 26 September 2002 15:25 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [SA-list] Check NT spool queues the spool directory is where the files are housed temporarily while the jobs are printing. This is ALL jobs though not just one printer at time... My 2 cents... -----Original Message----- From: Dirk Bulinckx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 1:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SA-list] Check NT spool queues Countfiles count's files. Not sure how the NT spool is working, if they would have files somewere it could help. I should be possible to check the spool length using a perfmon check or using SNMP. dirk. dirk. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu Sep 26 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SA-list] Check NT spool queues Anyone had any sucess using Servers Alive checking NT spool queue (prints)? I want to be alerted when a printer has more than X jobs in the queue Can the addon CountFiles be used, if so anyone knows how? Let's say you have a mailserver that uses a spool directory. If the mail server is running correctly, it should deliver the mail within 5 minutes to the internet. But since sometimes the mail service runs, and still the mail server isn't running correctly, it's not enough to check the mail server service. It would be nice to be able to check the number of files in the mail server's spooldirectory and have Servers Alive warn you when more the 200 files are in that directory. By using a combination of the external check of Servers and COUNTFILES.EXE it's now possible. To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
