What's the point of enabling SNMP on HP Printers?

[Epsil0n00]

I noticed recently that our HP printers have the ability to be monitored via SNMP. However, I had to ask myself: "What would I want to monitor on a printer via SNMP?"

Has anybody had experience with this... or know any good reasons to set this up?

TIA, Eps.

 

[alent1234]

I set up HP insight manager on one of my servers and I'm slowly pointing all the printers to it so they can send stuff like serial numbers, model #, etc over SNMP. If you have an application that understands the mibs you can have the printers alert you when they run out of toner, ink, etc.