Addition : Ink Level

[Charles Lopes]

Colin Walters wrote:

>I don't have any immediate thoughts on a UI for the person *maintaining*
>the printers.  Seems like that could just be a cron job or something
>that sends email.
>  
>
IMHO system-config-printer would be a nice place to have access to this 
type of information, in particular on a home computer. If the computer 
is part of a larger park, there should already be a site wide monitoring 
infrastructure where to fit this information (nagios, e-mail, syslog, 
snmp, pager). A small command line tools that can be used in scripts 
would go a long way to ease integration of such information in an 
existing infrastructure. I noticed that many network printers send 
warnings about low level of ink/toner by syslog if a syslog server 
attribute is sent to them by DHCP and can be queried by snmp. Doing the 
same could be a good start.