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Register static IP HP Printer in DNS Automatically

I have about 75 Printers ( Majority HP Laserjet P4015 ) throughout my organization. I cannot ping these printers by Printer name because they are not registered in DNS.

I can manually add these printers but then with anby changes DNS would need to be manually updated.

I am also planning on changining the IP adddress of some of these printers in the near future.

How can I add these printers to DNS ?

I am on a 2008 R2 Active directory environment
my print server is a 2008 R2 server

barrykfl

Not necessary use DNS , your print server should already able to address them.

Enable SNMP proctocol , or using the printer mautifactor untily that collects those broadcast will able to centralisex them.

Ekuskowski

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I don't understand , If the Printer name is not on my DNS server how could my computer possibly resolve the name to the ip address, if my computer looks to my DNS server for name resolutions ?

The printers have SNMP enabled and Im nut sure what printer manufacturer utility you are talking about.

Can you be more specific ?

Thanks

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Ekuskowski

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Considering this is the first time in six years that I have needed / wanted to ping a printer by name, I'll just leave well enough alone. I do not want to set the printers to use DHCP and I also do not want to lessen my security in any way. So for now I'll ping by IP address.

Star-MIS

I feel the same way you do, Ekuskowski.
I wanted to be able to ping by hostname, but never really had a reason to.
The only advantage is some of my printer notifications have a link which directs to the host name of the printer instead of the IP address, so clicking on them only errors out.
You can manually create the A records in your DNS, since you only have about 75, that isn't too much work,