Printer Maintenance Checker

[gzarif]

Hello,

Last week I had the Nagios quickstart and we were able to check the toner status; however now I need to monitor the maintenance kit status for all printers.

CAn someone please help me set it up?

Thanks,

G

[lmiltchev]

What is the plugin that you are currently using?

[gzarif]

currently I'm using the toner_check

[abrist]

now I need to monitor the maintenance kit status for all printers

I presume you need more information than just toner status?
What type of printers are these?

[gzarif]

exactly, we need more information than just toner status; we are very interested in the maintenance kit status as well.

The model of the printer that we have are:

1. Xerox WorkCentre 4150
2. Xerox WorkCentre 4250
3. Xerox WorkCentre 4265
4. Xerox Phaser 4510DT
5. Xerox Phaser 3635MFP
6. HP LaserJet 4250
7. HP LaserJet 600 M602

FYI: The tech support that I did the quickstart with was jdalrymple

[jdalrymple]

Sorry George - I am the one with the background but the fellow techs picked it up prior to me seeing the problem.

Can I get you to run this snmp query from your Nagios box to one of your printers:

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snmpwalk -v 1 -c public printerIP .1.3.6.1.4.1.43.11.1

Post the output here so we can see if using a modified version of your existing plugin will work.

[gzarif]

I have put: snmpwalk -v 1 -c public 10.138.87.85 .1.3.6.1.4.1.43.11.1 and I got no output

Am i doing something wrong?

[jdalrymple]

Am i doing something wrong?

No, I did, try this:

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snmpwalk -v 1 -c public 10.138.87.85 .1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1

[gzarif]

Here is the output

[jdalrymple]

Hi again gzarif,

Simple...

So that OID is not specific to toner, or even 1 toner cartridge. There is an index (which is going to be different for each printer) that you will have to specify to grab the maintenance kit:

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[jdalrymple@localhost ~]$ ./check_print_toner public 192.168.1.10 1
Black Toner = 20.00%
[jdalrymple@localhost ~]$ ./check_print_toner public 192.168.1.10 2
Maintenance Kit = 86.00%
[jdalrymple@localhost ~]$ ./check_print_toner public 192.168.1.25 1
Cyan Cartridge = 60.00%
[jdalrymple@localhost ~]$ ./check_print_toner public 192.168.1.25 2
Magenta Cartridge = 60.00%
[jdalrymple@localhost ~]$ ./check_print_toner public 192.168.1.25 3
Yellow Cartridge = 60.00%
[jdalrymple@localhost ~]$ ./check_print_toner public 192.168.1.25 4
Black Cartridge = 100.00%
[jdalrymple@localhost ~]$ ./check_print_toner public 192.168.1.25 5
Fuser = 60.00%
[jdalrymple@localhost ~]$ ./check_print_toner public 192.168.1.25 6
Belt Unit = 60.00%

Note that the first 2 are a Lexmark MFP and the other 6 are a Dell MFP. No doubt all printers are likely to be a bit different so you'll probably want to create some hostgroups based upon type/model of printer if you have zillions.