Noah Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:29:05AM -0500, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: > > > > I don't know if you can get JetAdmin for Linux, but I suggest looking > > at CUPS. I have JetAdmin at work on Solaris and CUPS at home and they > > seem pretty similar to me. When you say check the status of an HP > > printer, what do you mean? Is it something more than a cron job > > grepping the result of 'lpstat -p printer'? > > No, JetAdmin and CUPS/lp* do very different things. Among other things, > JetAdmin and friends can communicate via SNMP to a networked printer, > allowing you to do fun things like reboot it or query paper status and > things like that. CUPS/lp* only handle local queue stuff. They don't > do much talking to printers beyond sending jobs to them.
`apt-cache search snmp' shows up with among others "snmp - NET SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) Apps" and "npadmin - Query information from SNMP featured printer". Maybe they do (part of) what you want. BTW, this is sid. Greetings, joachim