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Job Monitoring MIB - V1



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RFC 2707               Job Monitoring MIB - V1.0           November 1999


   extensions to this MIB may include, but are not limited to, fax
   machines and scanners.

Table of Contents

   1   INTRODUCTION                                                    4
     1.1 Types of Information in the MIB                               5
     1.2 Types of Job Monitoring Applications                          6
   2   TERMINOLOGY AND JOB MODEL                                       7
     2.1 System Configurations for the Job Monitoring MIB             11
       2.1.1   Configuration 1 - client-printer                       11
       2.1.2   Configuration 2 - client-server-printer - agent in the
               server                                                 12
       2.1.3   Configuration 3 - client-server-printer - client
               monitors printer agent and server                      14
   3   MANAGED OBJECT USAGE                                           15
     3.1 Conformance Considerations                                   15
       3.1.1   Conformance Terminology                                16
       3.1.2   Agent Conformance Requirements                         16
         3.1.2.1   MIB II System Group objects                        17
         3.1.2.2   MIB II Interface Group objects                     17
         3.1.2.3   Printer MIB objects                                17
       3.1.3   Job Monitoring Application Conformance Requirements    17
     3.2 The Job Tables and the Oldest Active and Newest Active
         Indexes                                                      18
     3.3 The Attribute Mechanism and the Attribute Table(s)           20
       3.3.1   Conformance of Attribute Implementation                21
       3.3.2   Useful, 'Unknown', and 'Other' Values for Objects and
               Attributes                                             21
       3.3.3   Index Value Attributes                                 22
       3.3.4   Data Sub-types and Attribute Naming Conventions        22
       3.3.5   Single-Value (Row) Versus Multi-Value (MULTI-ROW)
               Attributes                                             23
       3.3.6   Requested Objects and Attributes                       23
       3.3.7   Consumption Attributes                                 24
       3.3.8   Attribute Specifications                               24
       3.3.9   Job State Reason bit definitions                       43
         3.3.9.1   JmJobStateReasons1TC specification                 44
         3.3.9.2   JmJobStateReasons2TC specification                 47
         3.3.9.3   JmJobStateReasons3TC specification                 51
         3.3.9.4   JmJobStateReasons4TC specification                 51
     3.4 Monitoring Job Progress                                      51
     3.5 Job Identification                                           55
       3.5.1   The Job Submission ID specifications                   56
     3.6 Internationalization Considerations                          60
       3.6.1   Text generated by the server or device                 61
       3.6.2   Text supplied by the job submitter                     61
       3.6.3   'DateAndTime' for representing the date and time       63



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