OSS network monitoring

[Spyrus]

I know this has been covered in the past, and I was looking at the original thread last night... but what do people use for printer monitoring? Right now, I'm just looking at up/down status, and checking things like pagecount and consumables.

Does anyone log it to a syslog server and have some script to analyze that data? I'm just looking for simple stats. How much printing, which times of days/which days of week, months of year, etc. Which departments print the most, etc. If I knew that type of info, I could get nicer printers for the onces who need it and cut back on the users who won't.

Right now, most of my network printers are HP2000 and HP4200 series with some 8000 series thrown in here and there. I think the color lasers are 3600 series. I may have the odd Lexmark OptraS 2450 laying around... but most of them were replaced with the 4200 series.

I just started using: Print Inspector

It was recommended in this thread: http://antionline.com/showthread.php?t=275691

After using it for a couple weeks it works pretty well. It gives you page count, which user used it, it does NOT have to sit on the print server and puts together decent reports. The application is a mere 100 dollars too for unlimited printers as best as I could tell.

*Also for monitoring LAN/WAN traffice our enterprise uses NetQoS (http://www.netqos.com/), its a pretty good application, I am not sure of the cost behind it though