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LauraB
SysAid Marketing
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Reduce Paper Waste with SNMP Monitoring
In the spirit of green IT, we asked SysAiders this past September whether or not they thought their organizations could go 100% paperless. The results were optimistic: of those surveyed, 57% believed that while a 100% reduction isn't feasible, they could definitely make some big changes to reduce their paper consumption. Another 24% said that some kind of reduction would be possible, and an enthusiastic 7% were committed to going paperless all the way. As a new spirit of eco-friendliness sweeps the world, IT pros are increasingly adopting greener attitudes and are evaluating how their day-to-day tasks impact the environment.
In line with this commitment to change, we decided to give you a tip on how SysAid can help you reduce paper waste with SNMP. SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is an important component of SysAid's Monitoring module, and the idea behind it is that you can monitor all of the devices in your network , large and small - everything from your telephones to the level of ink that's left in your printer. Within SysAid, you can define certain parameters so that you'll be able to monitor the number of pages that are printed in your organization. Want to see how SNMP can help you establish greener IT practices? Check out our new Green IT Flash Tutorial!
You can track this data over time to get a bigger picture of where your organization stands in terms of paper waste. From there, you can develop a reasonable goal for reduction for the future. Making the switch to greener IT is not only an altruistic move, but also carries a strong monetary incentive to cut costs.
Whatever your paper reduction goal may be, SysAid can help you get there: advertise your initiative in your news posts and automatic notifications and evaluate its success with SNMP monitoring. Just another SysAid feature that can help you contribute to the success of your organization - and in this case, planet Earth, too!
Have any green IT ideas of your own? Let us know!
This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 02/03/2010 03:32:33
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02/03/2010 08:25:40
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johnb
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" You can track this data over time to get a bigger picture of where your organization stands in terms of paper waste"
Hi,
This looks like a great feature, however we have several hundred printers. When you say we are able to track this over time, am i able to pull out a report showing these stats Vs time. Also can info capatured via snmp be monitored using the monitoring module so alerts can be generated?
Thanks
John
This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 02/03/2010 08:26:07
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03/03/2010 02:44:03
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itayH
SysAid Customer Relations
Joined: 23/09/2009
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Hi johnb,
You can use the SNMP scan in Network Discovery to add your printers to the Asset List and monitor them.
Monitoring the amount of paper\ink... is depended on the printers ability to send the information to the server.
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18/03/2010 05:30:41
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Tim Sutton
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We use SNMP to monitor a lot of network kit generally so it's definitely worth looking at.
I used to monitor the printers so that a group of people who look after the printers get alerts when a toner is out, there's a paper jam, it's run out of paper etc etc but I found that people just weren't doing anything about it so disabled the monitoring.
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17/05/2010 12:27:51
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ericsully
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Network World posted an article about a free monitoring tool http://www.real-user-monitoring.com
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