Print queue down message to email??

[Guest_imported]

Hi all,

Can someone point me in the right direction?
on AIX 4.3.3 using remote print queues to jetdirect servers...
when a print queue goes down can i have an email sent to my internet email or some other email besides local host?

and how would i do that? More on how to get the message into an email and then send it

Thanks
AnthonyF

 

[Chapter11]

Two issues:

1) Give AIX the ability to send mail to an external address.

2) Send an email notification if a print queue is down.

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The first issue I'll leave alone for now. You should try sending yourself a test email first, and then troubleshoot that matter from there. "mail -v me@domain.tld" and see what it complains about.

The second issue: easy scripting. As I would have it implemented (and probably should get around to doing)

mkdir /var/semaphore

[tt]check.queues.sh
#!/bin/ksh

SEMDIR=/var/semaphore
EMAIL=me@domain.tld

lpstat -W | grep "DOWN" | while read QUEUE MISC
do
if test -f ${SEMDIR}/${QUEUE}.notify
then
echo "" > /dev/null
else
echo "" | mail -s "Print queue ${QUEUE} on `hostname` is down" ${EMAIL}
touch ${SEMDIR}/${QUEUE}.notify
fi
done

lpstat -W | grep "READY" | while read QUEUE MISC
do
rm ${SEMDIR}/${QUEUE}.notify 2>/dev/null
done[/tt]

crontab that script for however often you want it to check, every 5 minutes or whatever.

 

[Yegolev]

If I were using this method (wish I was, long story) I would have it attempt to bring up the queue, at least once. You might also throw in some testing if you feel like it, such as a ping, traceroute or what not to see if it's network or printer failure. But I like to have things auto'ed if possible, a personal preference. IBM Certified -- AIX 4.3 Obfuscation

 

[Guest_imported]

That worked great!! Thank you.

And how is that I can have the script attempt to bring the queue back up before it emails me??

do i just insert an enable ${QUEUE} in there somewhere??

Thanks
Anthony

 

[Chapter11]

May require debugging. Written in notepad.

[tt]#!/bin/ksh

SEMDIR=/var/semaphore
EMAIL=me@domain.tld

lpstat -W | grep "DOWN" | while read QUEUE MISC
do
if test -f ${SEMDIR}/${QUEUE}.autoup
then
if test -f ${SEMDIR}/${QUEUE}.notify
then
echo "" > /dev/null
else
echo "" | mail -s "Print queue ${QUEUE} on `hostname` is down" ${EMAIL}
touch ${SEMDIR}/${QUEUE}.notify
fi
else
enable ${QUEUE}
touch ${SEMDIR}/${QUEUE}.autoup
fi
done

lpstat -W | grep "READY" | while read QUEUE MISC
do
rm ${SEMDIR}/${QUEUE}.notify 2>/dev/null
rm ${SEMDIR}/${QUEUE}.autoup 2>/dev/null
done[/tt]

 

[Guest_imported]

That worked perfectly!! Thank you so much!!!
-Anthony