# $Id: README,v 1.5 2007/12/11 17:02:41 nba Exp $

Monitor for printers that support the modern Printer-MIB

The monitor uses SNMP to check prints remaining till next maintenance,
and prints remaining in toner cartridge.

This is known to work for HP LaserJet 4300 and HP Color LaserJet 5550.
For the HP LaserJet 4000 it has no numbers. For the 4050 and 9000 it gives
the toner data, but no maintenance data.

For the LaserJet 9000 you should use the lj9000 module.

This module return performance data as the number of pages printed.

Parameters (with default values):

printer toner_yellow=1000 toner_red=500 \
	ink_yellow=5 ink_red=2 \
	maintenance_yellow=2000 maintenance_red=1000 printmib

This module also supports monitoring of printers which do not give
precise return values. In that case use the "simple_printmib" monitor.

printer		simple_printmib

Changelog

01.01 2005/03/08 Initial version
01.02 2005/09/07 Add serialno and model to report
01.03 2006/04/31 Fix glitch with toner reporting
01.04 2007/06/04 Add simple_printmib