How to set up Nagios to Monitor a Canon iR 3035

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I've been googling for how to set up printer monitoring – especially for Canon printers. This is because I have a Canon iR 3035 that I want to monitor for toner problems, paper jams, and paper outages. I found a few references to config settings like this with google searching:

define command{
 command_name       check_hpjd
 command_line       $USER1$/check_hpjd -H $HOSTADDRESS$ $ARG1$
}

However there seems to be no definitive documentation – at least none that I can find. Where should I be looking and how can I learn about setting up printer monitoring with Nagios – especially for the Canon ImageRunner series?

Best Answer

Canon ImageRunner printers support SNMP(v1, "public" community by default) to query their status. They report through the standard printers MIB (.1.3.6.1.43, available here) as well as a proprietary Canon MIB (available through Canon, with a developer membership).

You can also implement screen-scraping from the web interface, but SNMP would be easier (and less likely to change if you change printers in the future).

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