Difference between Printer and Print Queue

[ssuhail]

Greetings!

While running our discovery scans, we were able to discovery about 60% of the Printers in the environment (CMDB_CI_PRINTER). We also noticed that under "CMDB_CI_PRINT_QUEUE" all the "Printers" maintained by the Infrastructure team are listed.

Can any help me understand what is this print queue and how is it different from Printer / not classified as a Printer?

regards,

Suhail

[doug_schulze]

We only fill the print queue when we find a local printer that is also connected to the network with a valid ip.. Take a look at the windows printer sensor to see what its trying to do.. Ive never seen it work but once when I tried it on my own print server but never saw good results out in the wild.   Id check who put that info in the queue table, is the discovery source servicenow?