On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 09:54 -0400, Chet Luther wrote:
> On 5/4/07, James Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I have set up print counters for three models of printers in our
> > organization. The intention is to graph and report on print volumes. I have
> > one printer model which graphs perfectly, two others however have very
> > erratic graphs, spiking for each print job. I have been learning about the
> > round robin database (RRD) creation, but I can't identify why there seems
> > to be a difference in behavior.
>
> James,
>
> Are the printers using the same OID to pageCount?
Yes they all use 1.3.6.1.2.1.43.10.2.1.4.1.1.
> If you snmpwalk the
> related portion of the MIB it should tell you what type of data source
> it is.
As shown in the original message they are all Counter32. I was using the
following command to obtain the output:
for ((i = 1; i < 10; i++)) ; do
date +%s;
snmpget -v1 -c mycommunitystring printer-4
1.3.6.1.2.1.43.10.2.1.4.1.1;
snmpget -v1 -c mycommunitystring xerox-6d
1.3.6.1.2.1.43.10.2.1.4.1.1;
snmpget -v1 -c mycommunitystring xerox-2
1.3.6.1.2.1.43.10.2.1.4.1.1;
sleep 3600;
done
1178209872
SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.10.2.1.4.1.1 = Counter32: 259855
SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.10.2.1.4.1.1 = Counter32: 39264
SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.10.2.1.4.1.1 = Counter32: 228403
Just to clarify, the first line is printer model 1 (working) the other
two lines are examples of the other two models that do not work
properly.
> The only time you ever use COUNTER or DERIVE would be for
> Counter32 or Counter64 types. If your pageCount data source is using
> different OIDs for different printer models you might find that one
> model exposes the data as a counter, and the other as a gauge.
>
> If you're running into this kind of trouble I'd recommend stopping
> your zenperfsnmp daemon while you fiddle with it. Run it manually
> "zenperfsnmp run -v 10 --device=thePrinter" after making data source
> changes so you can be sure it is using the latest configuration.
>
I'll give that a try.
--
James D. Roman
IT Network Adminsitration
Terranet Inc.On contract to:
Science Systems and Applications, Inc.
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