Network Working Group R. Bergman
Request for Comments: 3805 Hitachi Printing Solutions
Obsoletes: 1759 H. Lewis
Category: Standards Track IBM Corporation
I. McDonald
High North Inc.
June 2004
Printer MIB v2
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
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Abstract
This document provides definitions of models and manageable objects
for printing environments. The objects included in this MIB apply to
physical, as well as logical entities within a printing device. This
document obsoletes RFC 1759.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1. Network Printing Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2. Printer Device Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.3. Categories of Printer Information . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.3.1. Descriptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.3.2. Status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.3.3. Alerts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.4. The Internet-Standard Management Framework. . . . . . . 7
1.5. Requirement Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2. Printer Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.1. Overview of the Printer Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.2. Printer Sub-Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.2.1. General Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.2.1.1. International Considerations. . . . . 10
2.2.2. Inputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.2.3. Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.2.4. Outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.2.5. Finishers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.2.6. Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.2.7. Media Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.2.8. System Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.2.9. Interfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.2.10. Print Job Delivery Channels . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.2.11. Interpreters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.2.12. Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.2.13. Alerts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.2.13.1. Status and Alerts . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.2.13.2. Overall Printer Status. . . . . . . . 16
2.2.13.2.1. Host Resources MIB
Printer Status. . . . . . 18
2.2.13.2.2. Sub-unit Status . . . . . 20
2.2.13.3. Alert Tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.2.13.4. Alert Table Management. . . . . . . . 21
2.3. Read-Write Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.4. Enumerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.4.1. Registering Additional Enumerated Values. . . . 25
3. Groups from other MIB Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3.1. System Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3.2. System Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3.3. Interface Group objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
3.3.1. Interface Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4. Differences from RFC 1759 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5. The IANA Printer MIB. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
6. The Printer MIB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
-- Textual conventions for this MIB module. . . . . . . . . . 59
-- The General Printer Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
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