Printronix Integrated Network Interface Card Printer Monitoring And Logging, Term Description

Printer And Print Job Monitoring

Printer Monitoring And Logging

The NIC allows you to monitor printer status and log information through its built-in HTML forms, command set, and logpaths.

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
Term	Description
idle	There is no job queued for the NIC I/O port.
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.
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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