Re: SNMP Agent over HP printer

2006-12-21 Thread Dave Shield
On 21/12/06, K.M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> does lpstat report the status of the printer correctly? > -thats what i am looking for No - Robert is asking if *lpstat* (run locally on the machine) reports the status of the printer correctly. We know that the agent doesn't report this. The main

Re: SNMP Agent over HP printer

2006-12-21 Thread K.M.
thats right Mr Robert. Robert Story <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:47:06 -0800 (PST) K.M. wrote: KM> I have Hp DeskJet 5550 , I would like to check printer status through the Host resources MIB. When I tried it doesn’t work it is just gave me all the time the same values.

Re: SNMP Agent over HP printer

2006-12-20 Thread Robert Story
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:47:06 -0800 (PST) K.M. wrote: KM> I have Hp DeskJet 5550 , I would like to check printer status through the Host resources MIB. When I tried it doesn’t work it is just gave me all the time the same values.. how i can implement SNMP Agent on it ? i lost when i try to get in

Re: SNMP Agent over HP printer

2006-12-20 Thread Steve Friedl
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:38:39PM -0800, K.M. wrote: > The Host Resources MIB [RFC1514] provides two status objects that can be used > to describe the status of a printer: hrDeviceStatus and hrPrinterStatus. > What you need is to implement this MIB in the printer. My question is How > to impl

Re: SNMP Agent over HP printer

2006-12-20 Thread Dave Shield
On 20/12/06, K.M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What you need is to implement this MIB in the printer. My question is How > to implement this over HP printer. Yes - you are correct that it's perfectly possible to implement this MIB as part of an embedded SNMP agent. That's presumably what Ricoh,

Re: SNMP Agent over HP printer

2006-12-19 Thread K.M.
The Host Resources MIB [RFC1514] provides two status objects that can be used to describe the status of a printer: hrDeviceStatus and hrPrinterStatus. What you need is to implement this MIB in the printer. My question is How to implement this over HP printer. it is done in Ricoh 4500 and 4510,

Re: SNMP Agent over HP printer

2006-12-19 Thread Dave Shield
On 19/12/06, K.M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have Hp DeskJet 5550 , I would like to check printer status through the > Host resources MIB. When I tried it doesn't work it is just gave me all the > time the same values.. how i can implement SNMP Agent on it ? Quite honestly, I doubt it's practi