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CUPS Administrative Guide

You're reading from  CUPS Administrative Guide

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2008
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781847192585
Pages 248 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
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Author (1):
Ankur Shah Ankur Shah
Profile icon Ankur Shah

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

CUPS Administrative Guide
Credits
About the Author
1. Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
2. Preface
1. Introduction 2. Building and Installing CUPS 3. Printer Management 4. Managing Multiple Printers at a Time 5. CUPS Server Management 6. Client Setup 7. Quota Management 8. Monitoring CUPS 9. File Typing and Filtering 10. Security

Other Accounting Tools


Though CUPS has its own quota system, there are other accounting systems you can use with CUPS.

The most well-known and feature-rich free software package for print accounting and quotas is PyKota (http://www.pykota.com/). We will discuss this in detail in a moment.

A simple system based on reading out the hardware counter of network printers via SNMP is accsnmp. More information is available on:

http://fritz.potsdam.edu/projects/cupsapps/

There are other accounting tools that can be used with CUPS, including PrintAnalyzer, printbill, and LogReport.

You can find more information about PrintAanlyzer at:

http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/printanalyze/

The information about printbill can be found at:

http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~daniel/software/printbill/index.shtml

You can also find out more information about LogReport at:

http://www.logreport.org/

PyKota

As we have seen, CUPS features its own simple print quota system which is not extensible and lacks many of the features...

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