[cups.general] [ANNOUNCE] accsnmp v1.01

[Jeff Hardy]

Hello,

I am happy to announce (belatedly) that accsnmp v1.01 is now available.
For details, see http://cups.org/links.php?V130

Accsnmp is an accounting wrapper backend for CUPS that queries a
printer's page counter over SNMP both before and after a job to arrive
at a job page count.  A simple accounting function stores user
pagecounts in text files.

This backend does not parse jobs trying to glean accounting information,
so there is no requirement for any particular printer job language.
This avoids the complication of supporting multiple printer job
languages, accounting for language syntax complexities, etc.

Accsnmp is ideal for raw queues, for which CUPS does not have true
accounting information.  It also works for non-raw queues.

Accsnmp is written in Perl and offers a high degree of flexibility.  The
backend also features name-based user and job blacklisting, and
accounting for extra pages on color printers.


Thank you.


-- 
Jeff Hardy