Graphing Printer Snmp Data With Cacti
So you may be asking yourself, why in the world would I want to monitor my network printers with Cacti? Well lets say you have a user who is very import or maybe just very demanding to deal with. So say the VP of the company has a network printer and is constantly calling you when his toner runs out and he is never happy and the printer is always “broken”. Well what if you could avoid that call? If you’ve been following along here at the squad thelast few months we have talked a lot about Nagios, Cacti and monitoring your network. Well how about if you could setup a graph and alert so not only would you be able to see usage on your printers to help know who really needs a 40,000 page a month duty printer, but you would be able to see when that VP’s printer is running low on toner so you can slip into his office before he even notices and change it out thus stopping that call from happening!
Above is a Cacti template to help you graph your network printers. There are other templates for specific models but this should do for a generic printer.
If you need help importing a template into cacti go here.
There you can find a Nagios plugin to help keep track of your printers and get some notifications. I hope these help you in your further usage of Cacti to get a handle on your network.
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