Hi Bruce, I would try what Joe pointed out first.
Also, many printers push a syslog. You can find things out such as: - printer off line - toner getting low - printer out of paper (kind of silly but, possible). Michael Patterson (207)324-8805 x222 Check out Logalot for WhatsUp Gold: http://www.somix.com/products/logalot_whatsupgold.php [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Sepielli Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WhatsUp Forum] monitoring print queues Bruce, You could monitor the "Spooler" service. - Configure->Monitors & Services->New->NT Service ... You could also monitor the printers directly via SNMP. - Configure->Monitors & Services->New->SNMP Monitoring ... Regards, Joe In reply to 23 Oct message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >----- Forwarded by Bruce Webber/CH/Novartis on 10/23/2003 10:20 AM ----- >Bruce Webber >10/23/2003 10:11 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > cc: > Subject: monitoring print queues >What's Up Wizards..... >I have an on-going issue where our MS 2000 server that has all our print queues on them stops printing. There is no log in the eventlog or >anything else that I know of to try and capture this problem, but yet it stills happens about once a month, sometimes it's all printers, sometimes >just half of them. >Does anyone know of any tools to monitor printer queues/jobs to see if they are functioning? Does anybody out there monitor their printers? if >so, how? >Thanks for any advice.... >Bruce Webber >Sr. Technical Consultant >Network Services >973.503.7788 Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
