Re: Where can I get JetAdmin for Linux?
Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:29:05AM -0500, Brian P. Flaherty wrote:
> >
> > I don't know if you can get JetAdmin for Linux, but I suggest looking
> > at CUPS. I have JetAdmin at work on Solaris and CUPS at home and they
> > seem pretty similar to me. When you say check the status of an HP
> > printer, what do you mean? Is it something more than a cron job
> > grepping the result of 'lpstat -p printer'?
>
> No, JetAdmin and CUPS/lp* do very different things. Among other things,
> JetAdmin and friends can communicate via SNMP to a networked printer,
> allowing you to do fun things like reboot it or query paper status and
> things like that. CUPS/lp* only handle local queue stuff. They don't
> do much talking to printers beyond sending jobs to them.
`apt-cache search snmp' shows up with among others "snmp - NET SNMP
(Simple Network Management Protocol) Apps" and "npadmin - Query
information from SNMP featured printer". Maybe they do (part of) what
you want.
BTW, this is sid.
Greetings,
joachim
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