Printronix P5000LJ user manual Printer Monitoring And Logging, Printer And Print Job Monitoring

Chapter 14 Printer Monitoring And Logging

Printer Monitoring And Logging

One of the key aspects of maintaining a computing environment is monitoring printer status and logging this information to useful places. The NIC allows this through its built-in HTML forms, command set, SNMP traps, e-mail alerts, and logpaths.

Printer And Print Job Monitoring

To view the current status of an I/O port on the NIC, you can use either Telnet or a Web browser as follows:

Telnet

Using Telnet, enter the lpstat command directly on the print server (after you have logged in as guest or root).

Web Browser

Using a Web browser, select the desired I/O port on the “Status” HTML form that comes with theNIC:

http://P5000LJIPaddress/indexStatus.html (e.g., http://192.75.11.9/indexStatus.html).

Whether using Telnet or a Web browser, you are given a description of each I/O port status and a list of queued jobs. Table 17 describes some of the common terms you may encounter.

	Table 17. 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. If this
	condition persists, check that there is not a printer error and
	that the printer 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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