Print server test

szalies · Post by **szalies** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 4:54 am

I'd like to test a print server

If I open it in explorer(\\print_server\), I can see 50+ printers symbols.

So I tried to use a count file test (alerting if <50 printers seen) but printers are not files... so don't work

Still, I think it should be possible in a similar way, no ?

Thanks

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 1:07 pm

Sure, printers are not files.
So, what exactly do you want to monitor? Number of printers? But this number is static. Probably its more usefull to check for some printer errors? E.g. "Not Ready Errors" or "Job Errors". You may use "Performance Counter" test for this purpose

Regards
Alex

szalies · Post by **szalies** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 2:11 am

Printer number is far from static when you have 70+

I just want to monitor the print server, NOT the printer (no way I'm gonna monitor 140 printers).

If my print server is called toto, I just open \\toto in my explorer and I can see printers.

I'm already monitoring the spooler service, but want to check that >50 printers are available.

Marcus · Post by **Marcus** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 4:55 am

The following command wil give you the number of printers available on a server:

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net view \\toto | find /C "Print"

This can be used to script for the number of printers on a server.

szalies · Post by **szalies** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 4:57 am

Great, thanx !

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 2:52 pm

Another solution, use script like

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MinLimit = 1
MaxLimit = 10
strComputer = "." 
Set oSvc = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") 
Set Printers = oSvc.Get("win32_printer").Instances_ 
i=0
FOR each printer in Printers 
 'WScript.Echo "Printer: " & printer.name 
 i=i+1
NEXT 
IF (i<MinLimit) or (i>MaxLimit) THEN
   WScript.Echo "scriptres:Bad:" & i 
ELSE
   WScript.Echo "scriptres:Ok:" & i 
END IF

Shell Script test method:
http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/mfra ... m#chkShell

Regards
Alex