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Telnet
Telnet can be used to monitor the status of the printers attached to the Print Server.
Operation
Establish a connection to the Print Server, by starting your Telnet program and
providing the IP Address of the Print Server. (No port number is required.)
The will respond with "Welcome to Print Server".
From the resulting prompt,3 commands are possible:
• Help: Show brief help
• Monitor: show printer status
• Exit: leave telnet
Monitoring
The "Monitor" command will show the status of the printer, on each port, as shown
in the following example.
(P1)STATE: Idle
TYPE: Parallel
PRINTER STATUS: Out Of Paper
(P2)STATE: Printing
TYPE: Parallel
PRINTER STATUS: On-Line
BYTES SERVICED: 75264
OCCUPIED BY: LPD
(SP)STATE: Idle
TYPE: Serial
PRINTER STATUS: Offline
The display is updated once per second.