Generic Printer monitoring and management plugin

Verax NMS Generic Printer management plugin allows easy monitoring, alerting, health check, management and performance reporting of SNMP-enabled printers supporting the SNMPv2, Printer and HOST-RESOURCES-V2 MIBs. The Generic Printer plugin can communicate using SNMP v1, v2 or v3.

General view

The view presents general configuration information about a printer such as:

• Detailed printer information: model, version, firmware revisions (e.g. Xerox Phaser 7300; System Software Version 10.093.02.000, Firmware Version 2.50.00.95, Net V4.00.92 18-05-2009, IOT 1.00.11, PCL5e 5.92, PCL6 5.93, TIFF 0.91.00, SPL 5.32)
• Name, serial number, uptime, operator, service status
• Printer status, number of configuration changes and events
• Error state if present, such as "low toner"

Devices view

The view presents hardware components of a printer (e.g. CPU, RAM cards, scanner, fax, etc.) along with individual statuses and errors.

Alerts view

This view presents printer alerts along with timestamps, severity levels, codes, descriptions and others.

Performance view

This view presents CPU and RAM performance statistics.

Standard MIBs

The Generic Printer supports the standard MIB-2, enabling NMS to define sensors, performance counters, alarms and traps based on standard MIB definitions.

Loading vendor MIBs

Additional MIBs can be loaded via NMS MIB Browser. OIDs from these MIBs can be used to define additional sensors and performance counters as needed.

Predefined Generic Printer monitoring templates

The plugin contains predefined templates for most commonly monitored printer items. Most important, selected templates are provided in the table below (other, additional sensors and performance counters can be added by the user):

Performance counters and alarming

All the above parameters can be added as sensors/performance counters within Verax NMS and configured for alarming.

Event processing

Verax NMS provides a set of standard, built-in event processing rules for MIB-2. Additional rules can be defined based on standard and vendor-specific MIB OIDs.

See also

Generic Router monitoring and management plugin 

Generic Switch monitoring and management plugin 

Generic Firewall monitoring and management plugin 

Generic UPS monitoring and management plugin