Printer OID does not work on every printer

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Hello I was asked to write a program to ask every printer in the network for there, name, location, and CMYK toners(how much percentage are left). I serched for the OID'a and everything was working. Now that i have the program that gets the data from all printers at some printers i does not work and the program shuts itself down. Why is that ?

Thanks in advance. Yours sincerely Scarlet

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 12 '18 at 08:06

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The problem is that there is no common MIB to monitor all printers. So it is very vendor specific. There are several most commonly used MIBs to monitor printer devices:

PARALLEL-MIB - MIB module for Parallel-printer-like hardware devices.
PRINTER-MIB - MIB module for management of printers.
IANA-PRINTER-MIB - IANA basic SNMP definitions for printer devices.
HP-LASERJET-COMMON-MIB - Hewlett-Packard definitions for LaserJet series devices.

answered Jul 12 '18 at 08:06

Andrew Komiagin

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I have Konica Minolta Printer. So what is the best i can use that i works for mostly everyone ? – Scarlet Jul 12 '18 at 08:31
The base OID for Konika Minolta is 1.3.6.1.4.1.18334. So try searching for MIB files based on that. – Andrew Komiagin Jul 12 '18 at 08:38
Thank alot, again :) – Scarlet Jul 12 '18 at 08:52

Printer OID does not work on every printer

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