PRINT-SPOOL-SUNMANAGEMENTCENTER-MIB2

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Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc.

Last Updated: 1999-09-20

Category: Server/Systems Management

Description: Monitors Unix print spool queues via Sun Management Center, tracking job counts, queue status, and printer availability.

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What Is PRINT-SPOOL-SUNMANAGEMENTCENTER-MIB2?

PRINT-SPOOL-SUNMANAGEMENTCENTER-MIB2 is a Sun Microsystems MIB, delivered as part of Sun Management Center, for monitoring the Unix print spooling subsystem (the lp/lpsched print service) on Solaris hosts. It exposes data on the print scheduler's running state, a table of configured printer devices (name, description, host machine, device path, and state), and print queues, letting an administrator see the overall health of print services on a server. Its primary monitoring value is software/service status -- confirming whether the print daemon (lpsched) is running, whether individual printer devices are enabled/accepting jobs or in an error state, and whether queues are backed up -- rather than hardware sensor data. It is a Sun-specific companion MIB used within the broader Sun Management Center agent framework rather than an IETF standard. It is typically deployed on Solaris servers acting as print servers in enterprise Unix environments monitored via SunMC. Engineers can download the PRINT-SPOOL-SUNMANAGEMENTCENTER-MIB2 file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in PRINT-SPOOL-SUNMANAGEMENTCENTER-MIB2. 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

Solaris/Unix server running Sun Management Center print spooling

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would poll prsLpschedState to confirm the print scheduler daemon is up, then walk prsDeviceTable/prsDeviceEntry to check prsDevState for each printer identified by prsDevName, prsDevMachine, and prsDevDevice. The companion prsQueueTable/prsQueueEntry (keyed by prsQueueName) shows queue-level status, revealing whether jobs are piling up because a device has gone offline. A prsDevState showing a fault condition on a given prsDevName would explain why print jobs submitted to that device are failing or stuck in queue.

What Can Be Monitored

print scheduler (lpsched) running state
printer device status
queue name and status
device machine/name/description

Imported Objects

From SNMPv2-CONF

OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
enterprises

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString
RowStatus

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using prsQueueJobs OID:

Select a Solaris/Unix server running Sun Management Center print spooling as the target host to create a monitor — the SNMP service should be up and running on it. Click New Monitor, then check SNMP Custom on the Favorites tab, click Next, and confirm the host. On the next page, click Select... to open the built-in SNMP MIB Browser and type prsQueueJobs into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, selecting the specific row/instance you want to monitor since this is a table column, then select it and click OK. The number of jobs in the printer queue. On the monitor's Main parameters page you can set the target's SNMP port (default 161), credentials, polling interval, and other settings — see the SNMP Monitor help for details. On the State conditions and Alerting tabs, configure when the monitor should change state and trigger an alert; since this is an Integer32-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the count changes from its expected baseline, since that would indicate the underlying set of items changed unexpectedly. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.

OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
sun	1.3.6.1.4.1.42
prod	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2
sunsymon	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12
agent	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2
modules	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2
printSpool	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.37			The Print Spooler allows to monitor the status of the printer daemon, queue, and devices on the network.
prsLpschedGroup	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.37.1			Print request scheduler related statistics.
STR prsLpschedState	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.37.1.1	DisplayString	read-only	The state of the lpsched process. The value may be Up or Down.
prsLpstatGroup	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.37.2			Print device and print queue related statistics.
prsDeviceTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.37.2.1		not-accessible	Table of print device related information. Each row corresponds to a print device.
prsDeviceEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.37.2.1.1		not-accessible	The entry contains information corresponding to one print device.
ROW prsDevRowstatus	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.37.2.1.1.1	RowStatus	read-write	The row status.
STR prsDevName	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.37.2.1.1.2	DisplayString	read-only	The name of the printer.
STR prsDevDesc	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.37.2.1.1.3	DisplayString	read-write	The description of the printer.
STR prsDevMachine	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.37.2.1.1.4	DisplayString	read-only	The name of the host machine for the printer.
STR prsDevDevice	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.37.2.1.1.5	DisplayString	read-only	The name of the device.
STR prsDevState	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.37.2.1.1.6	DisplayString	read-only	The state of the device.The values are 'enabled' or 'disabled'.
prsQueueTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.37.2.2		not-accessible	Table of print queue related information. Each row corresponds to a print queue.
prsQueueEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.37.2.2.1		not-accessible	The entry contains information corresponding to one print queue.
STR prsQueueName	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.37.2.2.1.1	DisplayString	read-only	The Printer Queue Name.
STR prsQueueState	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.37.2.2.1.2	DisplayString	read-only	The state of the Printer Queue.The values are 'accepting requests' or 'not accepting requests'.
I32 prsQueueJobsEx	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.37.2.2.1.3	Integer32	read-only	The number of jobs in the printer queue.
STR prsQueueCurrent	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.37.2.2.1.4	DisplayString	read-only	The current printer job.
I32 prsQueueSize	1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.12.2.2.37.2.2.1.5	Integer32	read-only	The size of the Printer Queue.

RFC description

Sun Microsystems vendor-private MIB for print spooler daemon monitoring including printer queue status and device management.

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