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diff --git a/collectors/cups.plugin/README.md b/collectors/cups.plugin/README.md index 8652ec5751..e325706392 100644..120000 --- a/collectors/cups.plugin/README.md +++ b/collectors/cups.plugin/README.md @@ -1,68 +1 @@ -<!-- -title: "Printers (cups.plugin)" -custom_edit_url: "https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/collectors/cups.plugin/README.md" -sidebar_label: "cups.plugin" -learn_status: "Published" -learn_topic_type: "References" -learn_rel_path: "Integrations/Monitor/Remotes/Devices" ---> - -# Printers (cups.plugin) - -`cups.plugin` collects Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) metrics. - -## Prerequisites - -This plugin needs a running local CUPS daemon (`cupsd`). This plugin does not need any configuration. Supports cups since version 1.7. - -If you installed Netdata using our native packages, you will have to additionally install `netdata-plugin-cups` to use this plugin for data collection. It is not installed by default due to the large number of dependencies it requires. - -## Charts - -`cups.plugin` provides one common section `destinations` and one section per destination. - -> Destinations in CUPS represent individual printers or classes (collections or pools) of printers (<https://www.cups.org/doc/cupspm.html#working-with-destinations>) - -The section `server` provides these charts: - -1. **destinations by state** - - - idle - - printing - - stopped - -2. **destinations by options** - - - total - - accepting jobs - - shared - -3. **total job number by status** - - - pending - - processing - - held - -4. **total job size by status** - - - pending - - processing - - held - -For each destination the plugin provides these charts: - -1. **job number by status** - - - pending - - held - - processing - -2. **job size by status** - - - pending - - held - - processing - -At the moment only job status pending, processing, and held are reported because we do not have a method to collect stopped, canceled, aborted and completed jobs which scales. - - +integrations/cups.md
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