PWG-IMAGING-COUNTER-MIB

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Organization: Printer Working Group, a Program of IEEE/ISTO

Last Updated: 2008-03-18

Category: Printing and Imaging

Description: Tracks Printer Working Group imaging device usage counters including pages printed, scanned, and copied per media size.

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What Is PWG-IMAGING-COUNTER-MIB?

This is a Printer Working Group (PWG) IETF/ISTO standards MIB that provides passive, read-only monitoring of imaging services and subunits on a multifunction printing/imaging device, tracking their state and usage counters. Its data spans imaging-service inventory (service and subunit type/index), availability status, and usage counters such as pages/media processed per imaging job, covering both configuration-like key/index tables and performance counters. It is used to monitor the operational status and workload of imaging hardware and firmware — confirming which imaging services/subunits (e.g., print, scan, copy engines) exist via icKeyTable/icServiceTable, and how much work each has performed and what media it consumed, letting an admin detect an idle/failed subunit or unusually high/low usage that signals a hardware or workflow problem. It is designed as a standards-based companion to the IETF Printer MIB and Job Monitoring MIB family, reusing similar service/subunit modeling conventions from that ecosystem. It is deployed on network-attached multifunction printers, copiers, and scanners across vendors that implement the PWG Imaging specifications for standardized fleet monitoring. Engineers implementing or auditing this functionality typically reference the PWG-IMAGING-COUNTER-MIB RFC/standard documentation for the authoritative specification.

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Supported Devices

  • vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, not tied to a specific manufacturer
  • network multifunction printer/copier/scanner

Monitoring Examples

An admin polls icKeyTable/icKeyEntry (icKeyIndex, icKeyServiceType, icKeyServiceIndex, icKeySubunitType, icKeySubunitIndex) to enumerate each imaging service and subunit on the device, then cross-references icServiceTable and the general counters (icGeneralTotalServiceRecords, icGeneralTotalMediaUsedRecords) to see total usage records. A subunit whose usage counter stops incrementing while the device is otherwise active would indicate that particular imaging subunit (e.g., a scan engine) has stopped functioning.

What Can Be Monitored

  • imaging service/subunit inventory
  • pages/media processed counters
  • service usage records
  • subunit availability state
Imported Objects

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Integer32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
enterprises

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
DisplayString
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TimeStamp
TruthValue
OIDs

RFC description

Passive monitoring of imaging services and subunits with state and performance counters for availability and work metrics.

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