If the community string, in your case "public", is incorrect, this is
enough to generate a timeout.
Additionally, if the printer does not even have SNMP capability, you
will also get a timeout.
You'll need to check the printer firmware config.
Why have you titled this message "Compaq Printer Mon
I am using Nagios 3.0.1 on RHEL 4 to monitor various Windows and linux / Unix
flavors. I have setup to monitor a network printer via SNMP and I get the
following result on printer status (PING is ok):
Error in packet : Timeout from host 172.24.50.102
Below is the printer.cfg (without the PING
