free monitoring software to check printer toners level?

wesley · 11 Dec 2014 at 09:12

hi guys

we have over 50 HP printers on site, is there any free software that i can monitor all printer toner levels within the software?

cheers

Little_Crow · 11 Dec 2014 at 12:04

Well if they're all HP, then Web JetAdmin is the obvious choice.
I've only ever used it for firmware updates, but it certainly allows monitoring of that sort of information too.

#Chri5# · 11 Dec 2014 at 12:34

PRTG is free for 30 sensors and that will report toner/paper levels from LaserJets (via SNMP). So close, but you'd have to pay to get enough sensors to cover 50 printers.

wesley · 11 Dec 2014 at 13:29

little cow, there are too many web interface to check the printer toner levels.

chris- PRTG is looking very good but how to add sensor for the printers?

so far its scanning the wrong range. printers have its own vlan network

wesley · 11 Dec 2014 at 14:28

i cant find download for HP web jetadmin for win7 32bit, i found 64bit but not 32bit

Little_Crow · 11 Dec 2014 at 15:49

I assume from your earlier response, you thought I was telling you to use the individual printer webpages?

It would appear that HP canned 32bit support. However 32Bit versions are still kicking around.

I've checked my software Repo and have found an older version with the following filename:
HP_Web_Jetadmin_10.3_-_32_bit_SW_-_build_88120_J6052-10539.exe

Because I can't be bothered to faff around with dropbox and the like, if you whack that filename into google and look for the link from ftp.psu.ac.th - This has exactly the same hash as the version I have.
SHA1: 68924b9e793a9e499507027922682da74149bb11

#Chri5# · 11 Dec 2014 at 16:43

wesley said:
little cow, there are too many web interface to check the printer toner levels.

chris- PRTG is looking very good but how to add sensor for the printers?

so far its scanning the wrong range. printers have its own vlan network

Manually add a Device by IP from the Devices screen.

kirbz · 11 Dec 2014 at 18:14

Spiceworks has this feature. May be a bit much for what you want though

Steveocee · 11 Dec 2014 at 19:01

Cacti should be able to do this with snmp
You can get a 'threshold' plugin to trigger out an email to suppliers or to you so you can order.

kitkat9933 · 11 Dec 2014 at 22:41

kirbz said:
Spiceworks has this feature. May be a bit much for what you want though

+1 Spiceworks is great.

wesley · 12 Dec 2014 at 10:01

Little_Crow said:
I assume from your earlier response, you thought I was telling you to use the individual printer webpages?

It would appear that HP canned 32bit support. However 32Bit versions are still kicking around.

I've checked my software Repo and have found an older version with the following filename:
HP_Web_Jetadmin_10.3_-_32_bit_SW_-_build_88120_J6052-10539.exe

Because I can't be bothered to faff around with dropbox and the like, if you whack that filename into google and look for the link from ftp.psu.ac.th - This has exactly the same hash as the version I have.
SHA1: 68924b9e793a9e499507027922682da74149bb11

yep thought you meant the individual printer pages

lol

just installed HP web jetadmin, just perfect for what i need. thanks

wozzizname · 17 Dec 2014 at 11:28

kitkat9933 said:
+1 Spiceworks is great.

Another vote for Spiceworks here !

Gammawolf · 5 Jan 2015 at 13:38

I've noticed "SmartDeviceMonitor for Admin" provided by Ricoh can do this although I only use this program to extract data from our multifunctional ricohs. As you can see it's showing all our other printers and toner status.
The users in our place replace the toner for me so there's no need to monitor it