Monitoring Printers; Implementing Printer Management; Agent/Manager Model - InfoPrint 6500 Series User Manual

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Implementing Printer Management

Printer management includes the following tasks:
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Monitoring the status of network printers
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Responding to alarms
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Gathering statistics on printer operations
The three elements of network printer monitoring and management are:
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Agent/manager model

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The management information database (MIB)
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SNMP, the protocol used to get management information
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Printer management utility (PMU)
Agent/Manager Model
The elements of a monitoring system, MIB and SNMP, are implemented in an
agent/manager model:
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The MANAGER is a console, workstation, or server on working hubs or
routers which has a global knowledge of ethernet interfaces and printers.
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AGENTS are utilities that reside on devices, such as an ethernet
interface, that respond through SNMP to management requests for
information. The information is stored in an MIB.

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