TechRepublic|Forums|Windows Forum

Windows Forum

General discussion

  • Creator
    Topic
  • July 30, 2002 at 1:01 am #2331454

    Printer Auditing

    Locked

    by tim marshall – houston · about 21 years, 8 months ago

    What is the best method/tool to use to monitor who is using a particular printer.

    Topic is locked This conversation is currently closed to new comments.
  • Creator
    Topic

All Comments

  • Author
    Replies
    • July 30, 2002 at 2:27 am #3601889

      Printer Auditing

      by landotek · about 21 years, 8 months ago

      In reply to Printer Auditing

      It depends on your printer. Some manufacturers (we use Ricoh) have their own software which can track copies/user information.
      Otherwise, there are a number of software products which are designed for implementing print quotas and billing, such asPaperCut (http://www.papercut.biz/gindex.htm) Since Win2000 doesn’t have its own print auditor, we are looking at purchasing PaperCut.

    • July 30, 2002 at 3:28 am #3601861

      Printer Auditing

      by joseph moore · about 21 years, 8 months ago

      In reply to Printer Auditing

      Tim:
      Well, the print jobs are all written to the Windows NT/2K print server in the System Event log, with an Event ID of 10. So, you could just parse out the Event ID 10 codes from your log, format them in something, and there you go!
      Personally, I found a great Event Viewer log parser called Event Log View from Engagent. The URL about this product is here:
      http://www.engagent.com/Products/productsinfo.asp?product=Event+Log+View
      (please remove any spaces)

      You can all logs on 2 separate machinesfor free with the free download. Any more machines, and you have to pay for it. This is an easy product to build your own queries based off the Event Viewer logs. So, you could build a custom query, looking for Event ID 10 in the System log off of your print server. You can filter by date, time and a bunch of other stuff. Try it out.

      hope this helps

    • July 30, 2002 at 4:24 am #3602835

      Printer Auditing

      by flan · about 21 years, 8 months ago

      In reply to Printer Auditing

      if it is a windows server, it already tells you who prints at what time. but if you want detailed information you can turn on auditing by going to the locay sercurity settings in the admin tools of w2k

    • August 29, 2002 at 10:21 pm #3595097

      Printer Auditing

      by tim marshall – houston · about 21 years, 7 months ago

      In reply to Printer Auditing

      This question was closed by the author

  • Author
    Replies
Viewing 3 reply threads