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Define remotely?<br />
Are these remote printers with queues on your AIX system that you want to monitor from yet somewhere else?<br />
Please explain in more detail.<br />
If its good enough to have the monitoring run on the AIX system, you could create a script that will parse /etc/qconfig and run &quot;lpq -P&lt;queuename&gt;&quot; on each, look for 'errors' or &quot;NOT READY&quot; statements in the output, and send you an email (or even attempt disable/enable the queue and send you email if the problem &nbsp;still persists).<br />

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Define remotely?
Are these remote printers with queues on your AIX system that you want to monitor from yet somewhere else?
Please explain in more detail.
If its good enough to have the monitoring run on the AIX system, you could create a script that will parse /etc/qconfig and run "lpq -P<queuename>" on each, look for 'errors' or "NOT READY" statements in the output, and send you an email (or even attempt disable/enable the queue and send you email if the problem  still persists).


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I wanted to use SNMP Monitoring application in order to display status of the queues in it but your script solution might do the trick for now. <br />
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thank you.
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I wanted to use SNMP Monitoring application in order to display status of the queues in it but your script solution might do the trick for now.

thank you.

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Forced accept.<br />
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Computer101<br />
EE Admin
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Hello,<br />
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I have large number of printers and at least 3 per day are going down is there a way remotly to monitor those printer queues so I know when they fail?<br />
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Thank you,
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Hello,

I have large number of printers and at least 3 per day are going down is there a way remotly to monitor those printer queues so I know when they fail?

Thank you,

How can I monitor AIX printer queues?

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.

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