A script to monitor the status of the Next House wing printers.
next-printers is a simple Python script that pings a series of printers at Next House periodically in order to report on their ink levels. It will also warn you if any printers it attempts to contact are offline so that they can be addressed.
This script must be run on MIT's network and have access to MIT's DNS servers in order to properly resolve the Next House printers.
All that needs to be done is to run the script through either Docker or with
just python3:
# Python method:
sudo python3 printer.py
# Docker method:
docker run -it --restart=unless-stopped -p 8000:8000 --name next-printers \
next-printersThis script will attempt to contact the Next House printers once a minute and report on their status in the standard output. This also serves the data at port 8000, which can be scraped by a Prometheus and Grafana installation in order to store and display the metrics.
There are two ways to set up this script: manually or with Docker.
Simply clone this repository to your system and install the needed dependencies:
git clone [email protected]:next-exec/next-printers
cd next-printers
pip3 install --requirement requirements.txtOnce this is done, see Usage for how to run this application.
The Docker method is useful if you have a working Docker installation and just want to run this script as a high-availability application. First, build the container:
docker build -t=next-printers .Once this is done, see Usage for how to run this application.