[unisog] Printers, printers, printers

[Frank Bulk]

As I said before, if it was easy, everyone would be doing it, but
unfortunately there's driver and other idiosyncrasies that make page
counting via SNMP less than an exact science.

See:
http://www.pcounter.com/revisionNW.txt 
for all the fixes related to page counting.

If you restrict your page counting to a certain vendor and certain model,
the page counting challenge is probably manageable, but if the solution is
truly heterogeneous then it's a lot more work than SNMP queries.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Gaddis, Jeremy L. [mailto:jeremy at linuxwiz.net] 
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 4:37 PM
To: frnkblk at iname.com; UNIversity Security Operations Group
Subject: Re: [unisog] Printers, printers, printers

On 12/15/07, Frank Bulk <frnkblk at iname.com> wrote:
> If it was that easy PCounter would also do it that way....unfortunately,
> it's not well-implemented and there's lots of exceptions in regards to
> duplexing, coloring, etc.

If your printer vendor has management tools (such as HP's WebJetAdmin,
I believe it's called), simply run a packet capture on the traffic
between the tools and the printer.  It's a simple matter to pick the
appropriate OIDs out of the SNMP queries.

--
Jeremy L. Gaddis
http://www.jeremygaddis.com/