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SNMP Poller Service for Consumable Monitoring on specific device class (printer) #8402

Open sjackson0109 opened 3 years ago

sjackson0109 commented 3 years ago

I've not really got much of a way of phrasing this; except to really explain the scenario/problem in hand.

Having Printers on the corporate LAN is nice and easy; everyone can successfully print. We enable SNMP polling for windows clients to detect the printer's availability (low toner levels, no/low paper levels etc). However, i'm aware that SNMP can be used for much more.. example: monitoring the "cyan ink level as a percentage 10/100 (or 0.1)".. or "tray 2 is out of paper" or "drum is near end of life"...
I'm not asking for a full printer monitoring service; just the ability to 'advise when a consumable requires replacement'.. and potentially advise how many of those stock-items are available for a given model or printer.

The SNMP Object ID (or OID) can be used by the SNMP poller service to collect data from each printer by IP, authenticating using SNMP v1/2/2c/3 credentials.

EG: HP4250 printer, takes the following consumables: HP Maintenance Kit Cur: 1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.9.1.2 HP Maintenance Kit Max: 1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.8.1.2 HP Toner Cur: 1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.9.1.1 HP Toner Max: 1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.8.1.1

The best example I can think of: Poll Printer 1 Collect 1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.9.1.1 (call this A) and 1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.8.1.1 (call this B) Perform a calculation of A/B and should the return value reach a threshold # 1, then trigger an email to the asset assigned owner (or manager of the location the asset is assigned to).

Once threshold # 2 is reached, send another email, copying in the snipe-it manager...

etc..

could become quite a maintenance heavy service; with a MIB pack importing process, and poller/SNMP walker GUI needing deveoping.. but it's quite a powerful feature for smaller company IT Staff.

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sjackson0109 commented 3 years ago

Yes

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