Monitoring Printers; Implementing Printer Management; Agent/Manager Model - Printronix PrintNet P8000 Line User Manual

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Implementing Printer Management

Printer management includes the following tasks:
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The three elements of network printer monitoring and management
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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
The MANAGER is a console, workstation, or server on working
hubs or routers which has a global knowledge of NICs and
printers.
AGENTS are utilities that reside on devices, such as a
PrintNet, that respond through SNMP to management requests
for information. The information is stored in an MIB.
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