NAME

check-printer - Nagios plugin for printer health via SNMP

SYNOPSIS

check-printer --host|H printer [ --community|c snmp-community ] [ --snmpwalk snmpwalk-path ] [--verbose] [--help]

DESCRIPTION

check-printer is a Nagios plugin to monitor printer health via SNMP. It uses snmpwalk command to retrieve printer alert table. Strongly inspired by check-printers plugin http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Network-Protocols/SNMP/check-printers/details

OPTIONS

--host|H printer

Specifies printer hostname/ip-address to monitor. Required.

--community|c snmp community

Specifies SNMP community name. Default value is 'public'.

--snmpwalk snmpwalk-path

Specifies path to the snmpwalk program. Default value is 'snmpwalk'

--verbose

Produces detailed output for debugging

--help

Produces a help message.

EXAMPLES

 check-printer --host 10.0.0.100

Retrieves alert table from the printer and produces status output.

 check-printer --host 10.0.0.100 --snmpwalk "c:\util\netsnmp\bin\snmpwalk"

Retrieves alert table from the printer via snmpwalk binary c:\util\netsnmp\bin\snmpwalk and produces status output.

EXIT VALUES

 0 OK
 1 WARNING
 2 CRITICAL
 3 UNKNOWN

AUTHOR

Tevfik Karagulle http://www.itefix.net

SEE ALSO

Nagios web site - http://www.nagios.org/
check-printers plugin - http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Network-Protocols/SNMP/check-printers/details/

COPYRIGHT

This program is distributed under the Artistic License http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php/

VERSION

Version 1.1, December 2023

CHANGELOG

Changes from 1.0
 - code clean-up
Initial release