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snmpbackend(8)
snmpbackend(8)
snmpbackend - cups snmp backend
/usr/libexec/cups/backend/snmp
ip-address-or-hostname
lpinfo -v --include-schemes snmp
The CUPS SNMP backend provides legacy discovery and identification of network
printers using SNMPv1. When used for discovery through the scheduler, the
backend will list all printers that respond to a broadcast SNMPv1 query with the
"public" community name. Additional queries are then sent to printers that
respond in order to determine the correct device URI, make and model, and other
information needed for printing.
In the first form, the SNMP backend is run directly by the user to look up the
device URI and other information when you have an IP address or hostname. This
can be used for programs that need to configure print queues where the user has
supplied an address but nothing else.
In the second form, the SNMP backend is run indirectly using the lpinfo(8)
command. The output provides all printers detected via SNMP on the configured
broadcast addresses. Note: no broadcast addresses are configured by
default.
The SNMP backend reads the /private/etc/cups/snmp.conf configuration file, if
present, to set the default broadcast address, community name, and logging
level. Each line consists of a directive followed by whitespace and any values
associated with the directive:
- Address @IF(name)
- Address @LOCAL
- Address ip-address-or-hostname
- Specifies a (broadcast) address for discovery. "@LOCAL" adds all of the IPv4 and
IPv6 broadcast addresses for active, non-point-to-point network interfaces,
while "@IF(name)" adds the IPv4 and IPv6 broadcast addresses associated with the
named interface. There is no default address.
- Community name
- Specifies the community name to use. Only a single community name may be
specified. The default community name is "public".
- DebugLevel number
- Specifies the logging level from 0 (none) to 3 (everything). Typically only used
for debugging (thus the name). The default debug level is 0. The
CUPS_DEBUG_LEVEL environment variable can be used to override the default value.
- DeviceURI "regular expression" device-uri [... device-uri]
- Specifies one or more device URIs that should be used for a given make and model
string. The regular expression is used to match the detected make and model, and
the device URI strings must be of the form "scheme://%s[:port]/[path]", where
"%s" represents the detected address or hostname. There are no default device
URI matching rules.
- HostNameLookups on
- HostNameLookups off
- Specifies whether the backend tries to do a reverse lookup of the detected
printer's address. The default is off.
- MaxRunTime seconds
- Specifies the maximum amount of time the backend will wait for a response. The
default is 120 seconds (2 minutes). The CUPS_MAX_RUN_TIME environment variable
can be used to override the default value.
backend(7),
cupsd(8),
cupsd.conf(5),
filter(7),
lpinfo(8),
http://localhost:631/help
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