HP Printers

ottomatic · Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 9

I know this kind of topic gets mentioned alot, but this is something that is driving me crazy.

I can get any page count on any HP printer. But for the life of me I can not get the toner usage. I've looked at every OID on the internet. Here's the OID's that I have checked....

BLACK CURRENT: .1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.9.1.1
BLACK MAX: .1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.8.1.1
CYAN CURRENT: .1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.9.1.2
MAGENTA CURRENT: .1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.9.1.3
YELLOW CURRENT: .1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.9.1.4

I find these numbers all over the internet but none of them work.

The printers that I am trying to graph are the HP LaserJet 4000 and 5100. The the HP Color LaserJet 5500.

Can someone please tell me where I can find the good OID's or if they don't exist.

NHDave · Cacti User Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Posts: 58

ottomatic · Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 9

That's the script I am using for the page counters and that works fine.

So today I sucked it up and called HP's JetDirect support and they gave me a website. http://new.hpdevelopersolutions.com/spp/Public/Sdk/SdkPublicDownload.aspx

Switch the drop down to "Laserjet and Digital Sender." Then expand "Printer Management" > then "Printer Specific MIBs"

Then I went and grabbed this freeware program to browse through the MIB that I downloaded from the address above. This program gives you the OID. Download here

I guess they don't have the OID's for my printers yet.

bio777 · Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 12

well... do you have internal jetdirect cards (the 4000N or 5100N) or do you have external jetdirect boxes on those printers (4000 or 5100) ?

if external you can forget about toner levels because they are set to 0 !!

regards
bio..

hnlk · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 1

I have the same problem with Dell printers. There's no OID available on the net. However, the web interface shows the toner and maintenance kit levels. So I wrote a PHP script that gathers the toner/maintenance kit levels from the web interface and put it inside a Data Input Method.

I don't know if your printers' jetdirects use simple HTML or are JAVA based. If it's simple HTML, then it shouldn't be too difficult to generate the php script.

jwashburn · Joined: 09 Jun 2006 Posts: 33