Printer Discovery - ModelID

[chaluisant]

Hello,

I am Discovering Ricoh printers across our footprint using a Custom SNMP OID Classification:

The challenge I am having is to distinguish between Model IDs.  The only way I nave been able to have these devices discovered as printers us by using the system OID, otherwise these come back as IP Routers.  

Looking in SNMP-Classify I can see I am getting the data I need 

And

What I am failing to get is how I can specify both that these devices be classified as printers and that the Model ID matches what I am getting via SNMP.

Thanks in advance for your time and help...

[DaveHertel]

Hi - in the SNMP classify phase, INPUT queue, look at payload details for the SNMPObjectID field (yellow highlight).  This is the OID that often (perhaps always... I'm not sure..)  describes the specific device make/model.  Its the unique ID of the kind of device.   Copy that OID (except the leading period .) and put into http://www.oid-info.com/ to cross-reference this OID to verify its make/model of what you want.

This OID can be setup in the SNMP System OIDs (again, without the leading .) to look for it, then when found assign X model and Y mfg.

Hope this helps?

[chaluisant]

Dave,  

Thanks for your reply.  Yes, I am using the ObjectID as you describe but my issue is that the printers are certainly different models all under that very OID.  What I am hoping to achieve is find a way to further differentiate these devices so I can populate the Model ID correctly.  I am thinking that since there is additional, relevant information coming back from the devices, what I am lacking is the mechanism to use it correctly

[DaveHertel]

At, I understand better now, thank you. While I haven't done this. I suspect you can enter same oid to be classified as multiple classified records, each differentiated by querying there payload for different content. I suspect this is what you were already trying. Sorry for being redundant

Try 2 different classier records, each with different criteria but using same oid.

Curious to learn what you find out.

[chaluisant]

Dave,

Do you have any recommendation about what can I use to build the criteria?  I tried "sysDescr" is , but I am not getting any result. could I use an OID there?

Thanks again!