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From: "JohnNews" <
[email protected]>
Subject: SNMP
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 07:50:00 -0400
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Folks;
Just wondering if there are any serious advantages of enabling SNMP on all
the print devices within my network.
Appreciate anyone with specific experience in SNMP and printers. Share with
the group, please !
Thanks,
John
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Enabling SNMP on a print device brings the advantage of being able to
view detailed status information about the device at any given time. Of
course, there is network traffic associated with polling the printer for
this status information. Depending on the number of print devices on the
network segment, you may notice an increase in network activity. Whether or
not this affects business operations depends on network bandwidth, number
of printers, etc. The frequency at which the print server queries it's
devices is defined in the following registry value:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Monitors\Standard
TCP/IP Port\Ports>StatusUpdateInterval
The default is 10 minutes, which could be adjusted as per network traffic
concerns.
There have been instances in which having SNMP can result in erroneous
"out of paper" or "paper jam" status messages. Check to make sure that the
print device supports SNMP. There has been a problem with Windows Server
2003 with the Standard Port Monitor that also caused this behaviour, which
was resolved with Service Pack 1. I am not sure if the relative hotfixes
have been ported back to Windows 2000, but I would likely be feasible if
the need arose. In the past, the general "solution" would be to simple
disable SNMP for the affected print device(s).
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