Monitoring Printers; Implementing Printer Management; Agent/Manager Model - IBM 4400-006 - 4400 Model 006 B/W Direct Thermal User Manual

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Implementing Printer Management

SMART
Printer management includes the following tasks:
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The four elements of network printer monitoring and management
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NOTE: Printer management requires the additional capabilities

Agent/Manager Model

The elements of a monitoring system, MIB and SNMP, are
implemented in an agent/manager model:
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Monitoring Printers

Monitoring the status of network printers
Responding to alarms
Gathering statistics on printer operations
Agent/manager model
The management information database (MIB)
SNMP, the protocol used to get management information
Printer management utility (PMU)
provided by the Smart Ethernet Interface.
The MANAGER is a console, workstation, or server on working
hubs or routers which has a global knowledge of Ethernet
Interfaces and printers.
AGENTS are utilities that reside on devices, such as a Ethernet
Interface, that respond through SNMP to management
requests for information. The information is stored in an MIB.
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