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11 Monitoring IBM 6400
Printers
The IBM 6400 Printer Management Model
This chapter describes the IBM printer management model and several
different tools which can be used to monitor network printers.
NOTE: See the NPM online help for information about monitoring using
NPM.
Use this chapter if you want to install a network management system and
need to understand IBM’s use of network printer management capabilities
with the SNMP agent on the NIC.
Implementing Printer Management
Printer management includes the following tasks:
• Monitoring the status of network printers
• Responding to alarms
• Gathering statistics on printer operations
The three elements of network printer monitoring and management are:
• Agent/manager model
• MIB, the management information database
• SNMP, the protocol used to get management information