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Ankur Shah has been working with Linux/AIX for last 4 years as a System Administrator. His previous assignment was with Packt Publishing, where he worked as System Administrator and also started implementing CUPS. He completed his graduation in Computer Engineering from Nagpur University, India. He is currently working as a SAP Basis Administrator and also started working on Governance Risk and Compliance for access Control. He is also interested in Oracle Database Administration and Security. He is the biggest fan of Kajol (a Bollywood actress) and dedicates this book to her. The day her movie releases is a day of celebration for him and he only parties once a year - 5th August - that's Kajol's birthday. It goes without saying that he watches all her movies several times - often dragging his friends and family to participate in his madness.
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Overview of snmp.conf


Since CUPS is a printer management system working on networking protocols, SNMP will be an integral part of the CUPS system. The configuration file snmp.conf resides in /etc/cups, and contains various directives, which determine the behavior of the SNMP printer discovery backend. The file contains the directive name followed by its value. The number sign "#" is used to specify the comments.

Currently, the SNMPv1 protocol is being used by the SNMP backend to discover network printers in CUPS and help to determine the correct device URI and the vendor, and the driver of each printer. IT expects that the future release of CUPS will have support for all SNMP versions including, SNMPv2, v2c, and v3.

SNMP actually collects information from the MIB (Management Information Base) host along with port probes to get this information. It is expected that, in future, CUPS will start supporting the new Port monitor MIB as well. The following are some of the key definitions related...

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Ankur Shah has been working with Linux/AIX for last 4 years as a System Administrator. His previous assignment was with Packt Publishing, where he worked as System Administrator and also started implementing CUPS. He completed his graduation in Computer Engineering from Nagpur University, India. He is currently working as a SAP Basis Administrator and also started working on Governance Risk and Compliance for access Control. He is also interested in Oracle Database Administration and Security. He is the biggest fan of Kajol (a Bollywood actress) and dedicates this book to her. The day her movie releases is a day of celebration for him and he only parties once a year - 5th August - that's Kajol's birthday. It goes without saying that he watches all her movies several times - often dragging his friends and family to participate in his madness.
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