LJ4600-MIB

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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company

Last Updated: 2004-02-18

Category: Printer and Finishing, Vendor: HP/HPE

Description: Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4600 color printer SNMP MIB defining CMYK toner levels, media handling, and device status objects.

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What Is LJ4600-MIB?

LJ4600-MIB is Hewlett-Packard's device-specific MIB for the LaserJet 4600 series color printer, covering objects unique to that model beyond the standard Printer-MIB, including diagnostics, control-panel interaction, and power-management behavior. It exposes categories such as internal self-test and diagnostic page printing, localization (supported languages/countries), control-panel button-press and display-content tracking (with change counters and a CRC of display contents), and power-state objects for energy-star/sleep-mode and on/off-line status. Its monitoring value directly supports hardware/software device-status tracking: on/off-line state and sleep-mode/energy-star settings reveal the printer's current power posture, control-panel display CRC/change-counter objects let a management tool detect and reflect front-panel status or error messages remotely, and self-test/print-internal-page objects can be triggered for diagnostics. It complements and depends on the standard Printer-MIB (RFC 1759) and HP's broader netPMLmgmt/PML management framework for core print-job and supply-level data, adding model-specific extensions on top. It is typically deployed on HP LaserJet 4600 color laser printers in office environments managed via HP Web Jetadmin or similar SNMP-based print management tools. Engineers can download the LJ4600-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in LJ4600-MIB. Use the built-in SNMP Monitoring Browser to explore available variables, view their current values and descriptions, and select the objects you want to monitor. You can then create SNMP monitors, configure thresholds, and receive alerts when monitored values change.

Supported Devices

  • HP LaserJet 4600 color laser printer

Monitoring Examples

A print-management tool would poll on-off-line and sleep-mode to determine current power state, and energy-star to confirm power-saving compliance mode is enabled as expected. control-panel-display-contents-crc and control-panel-display-contents-change-counter let the tool detect that the printer's front-panel message has changed (e.g., to a paper-jam or toner-low message) without needing to parse the raw display text, prompting a follow-up read of control-panel-display-graphical-contents. self-test or print-internal-page could be invoked remotely to force a diagnostic page print when troubleshooting a reported print-quality issue, and control-panel-button-press can reveal recent operator interaction with the device.

What Can Be Monitored

  • on/off-line state
  • sleep mode / energy-star status
  • control panel display contents and change counter
  • control panel button press activity
  • self-test / internal page print trigger
OIDs

RFC description

Defines model-specific SNMP objects for HP LaserJet 4600 printer network management via JetDirect.

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