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    • wirestyle22W
      wirestyle22 @scottalanmiller
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      @scottalanmiller said in Any OpenSource Print Monitoring Solutions:

      @wirestyle22 said in Any OpenSource Print Monitoring Solutions:

      @travisdh1 We have a uniflow print server but nothing monitoring local printers

      Do the local printers get printed to through the server?

      Not currently. Uniflow costs money though so I wanted to find a free open source solution I could create and manage.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @wirestyle22
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        @wirestyle22 said in Any OpenSource Print Monitoring Solutions:

        @scottalanmiller said in Any OpenSource Print Monitoring Solutions:

        @wirestyle22 said in Any OpenSource Print Monitoring Solutions:

        @travisdh1 We have a uniflow print server but nothing monitoring local printers

        Do the local printers get printed to through the server?

        Not currently. Uniflow costs money though so I wanted to find a free open source solution I could create and manage.

        Print servers are free, print monitoring without a print server is expensive. I'd say the cart is before the horse... fix the architecture and then monitor it rather than monitoring and then looking for a solution that that might not monitor. Not that centralized printing is always the answer, but if you are in a position of wanting to always monitor, it probably is.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
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          What is the purpose of the monitoring? What business goal will it serve?

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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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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            • RamblingBipedR
              RamblingBiped
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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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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller
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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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                • wirestyle22W
                  wirestyle22 @scottalanmiller
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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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                  • gjacobseG
                    gjacobse
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                    Moved topic from Water Closet to IT Discussion. Seems it really should be there.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @gjacobse
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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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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @wirestyle22
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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 🙂

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