E-mail notifications about printer status or changes in the level of consumables

O&K Print Watch can send e-mail notifications about printer status or changes in the level of consumables (for SNMP-compatible printers or multifunction devices).

You can set up e-mail notifications via your O&K Print Watch server’s web interface:

Printer status change

To set up an e-mail notification to be sent in case a printer’s or multifunction device’s status changes, you need to create a notification event with the following parameters:

Finally, click the “Add” button to create the notification.

From now on, as soon as the status of any printer or multifunction device added to O&K Print Watch changes to Offline, Out of paper, Error, etc., a notification about that will be sent to the specified e-mail address.

Consumables monitoring (for SNMP-compatible printers and multifunction devices)

To set up an e-mail notification to be sent in case the amount of consumables drops to the specified level, you need to create a notification event with the following parameters:

The following levels of consumables are available for notification:

Finally, click the “Add” button to create the notification.

From now on, as soon as the amount of consumables in any printer or multifunction device added to O&K Print Watch drops to the specified level, a notification about that will be sent to the specified e-mail address.

You can set up any of these notifications not only for all the printing devices, but also for a specific printer or multifunction device.

To do that, you need to add the parameter printer_id=X into the Filters field; here X is the Id field in the Printers table of the O&K Print Watch database. For example, the string event_name=printer_status?printer_id=1 will create a status change notification only for the printer whose Id is 1.

Alternatively, you can select a printer via the notification editor dialog box: Edit -> Filters:

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you create or edit a notification via the notification editor dialog box, make sure that you specify the type of event in the first field (for example, Event – Printer status change).

See also:

SMTP server settings.