Monitoring Printer Workloads

Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Scripting Guide

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It is as important to monitor the workloads on print servers as it is to simply ensure that these print servers are running. By monitoring individual print queues, you can gain a better understanding of how the printing load is being distributed among your printers. In turn, this allows you to make better decisions regarding the distribution of printing resources. For example, if you know that a printer in one department is being underutilized, you might transfer that device to a department where the only printer is experiencing an extremely heavy workload.

Printer workloads are monitored by checking individual print queues for such things as:

• Number of print jobs in the queue.
• Size of the print jobs in the queue.
• Amount of time print jobs spend in the queue before being printed.

These items can be monitored by using WMI and the Win32_PrintJob class.

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