[cups.general] Question on doing print accounting and backends
Rob Tanner
rtanner at linfield.edu
Thu Feb 9 09:26:31 PST 2006
I'm moving from an lprng print system to CUPS, and we currently
implement a by-the-page charge back print accounting system. With CUPS,
I have already discovered the "accsnmp" backend wrapper, and it works
like a champ. The problem is that the actual program that I need to
call to record the accounting information (logs it to a database)
requires not the printer IP, but the printer name. The wrapper has the
IP, but because several physical printers have more than one name for a
variety of reasons, there is not a simple one-to-one relationship
between the IP address and the printer name.
Does the DeviceURI follow the standard URL convention that will allow me
to append something like "?name=myprinter" in order to capture the name
of the printer?
Thanks,
Rob
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Rob Tanner
UNIX Services Manager
Linfield College, McMinnville OR
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