[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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