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Printer And Print Job Monitoring
Printer Monitoring And Logging
The NIC allows you to monitor printer status and log information through its
Printer And Print Job Monitoring
To view the current status of an I/O port on the NIC, two methods are available:
•select the desired I/O port on the “Status” HTML form
(i.e., http://NICIPaddress/indexStatus.html; e.g., http://192.75.11.9/indexStatus.html) that comes with the NIC.
•enter the lpstat command directly on the print server once logged in as guest or root.
In each case, you are given a description of each I/O port status and a list of queued jobs. Table 7 describes some of the common terms you may encounter.
| Table 7. Key Printer Logging Terms |
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Term | Description |
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idle | There is no job queued for the NIC I/O port. |
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blocked | The printer is not allowing the NIC to send data |
| to it. Check that there is not a printer error and it |
| is online and ready to go. |
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waiting | The NIC knows about a print job but is waiting for |
| the host to send more data or to send an |
| expected packet. |
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