Any OpenSource Print Monitoring Solutions
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What is the purpose of the monitoring? What business goal will it serve?
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@scottalanmiller said in Any OpenSource Print Monitoring Solutions:
What is the purpose of the monitoring? What business goal will it serve?
Probably to try and determine how much printing is costing the company, and who the worst offenders are. I was looking at this very same thing, and started using Zabbix, completely forgetting about printing since the system stats were more useful.
Zabbix probably can do this, I'll have to look into it again.
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BASH scripts and SNMP is about as basic as you can get... I use Nagios for monitoring my network printers. It warns me of prolonged paper jams, toner, and any other errors.
Not that I care though.
Because, you know, they're printers and they are inherently evil; put on this earth to spread discord and foster feelings of hate and distrust.
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Would it be easier to just figure out who keeps ordering paper and ink? More useful than monitoring how many pages are printed.
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@scottalanmiller This is a company that couldn't locate a record of purchasing our VM host machine.
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Moved topic from Water Closet to IT Discussion. Seems it really should be there.
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@gjacobse said in Any OpenSource Print Monitoring Solutions:
Moved topic from Water Closet to IT Discussion. Seems it really should be there.
Good idea.
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@wirestyle22 said in Any OpenSource Print Monitoring Solutions:
@scottalanmiller This is a company that couldn't locate a record of purchasing our VM host machine.
Maybe print monitoring is a bit over the top for them then
