Printer Monitoring And Logging; Printer And Print Job Monitoring - Printronix P5000LJ User Manual

Chapter 14

Printer Monitoring And Logging

Printer Monitoring And Logging
One of the key aspects of maintaining a computing environment is monitoring
printer status and logging this information to useful places. The NIC allows
this through its built-in HTML forms, command set, SNMP traps, e-mail alerts,
and logpaths.

Printer And Print Job Monitoring

To view the current status of an I/O port on the NIC, you can use either Telnet
or a Web browser as follows:
Telnet
Using Telnet, enter the
you have logged in as
Web Browser
Using a Web browser, select the desired I/O port on the "Status" HTML form
that comes with theNIC:
http://P5000LJIPaddress/indexStatus.html
(e.g.,
Whether using Telnet or a Web browser, you are given a description of each
I/O port status and a list of queued jobs. Table 17 describes some of the
common terms you may encounter.
Term
idle
blocked
waiting
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lpstat
guest or
http://192.75.11.9/indexStatus.html
Table 17. Key Printer Logging Terms
There is no job queued for the NIC I/O port.
The printer is not allowing the NIC to send data to it. If this
condition persists, check that there is not a printer error and
that the printer is online and ready to go.
The NIC knows about a print job but is waiting for the host to
send more data or to send an expected packet.
command directly on the print server (after
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