hi, i need a script which can send mail to a particular group(mail id's) or a single mail id regarding the usage of printer

sript should send a print if the number of papers crosses 30 pages, i need to send a mail to the print requester and to our monitoring person.

Pls let me know ,

thanks in advance......

Ah the emailing part is easy.   There was a vbscript for that on the internet.  We use it to email backup logs from NTBACKUP.  Even allows you to point to the SMTP server whether it's localhost, FQDN or a real IP

 A quick search on the internet yielded this example.

http://www.example-code.com/vbscript/smtp_simpleSend.asp

 How to tell when they hit that 30 page limit is not in my scope however.   Anybody else got the missing piece?

Still looking for  a solution?  I can see a few different possiblities:

1. Turning up logging on the print server.  I'm not sure if the number of pages would get written to events.

2. Have something watch the print queue and report back if the number exceeds X.

#1 would likely be easiest because reading from the Event Viewer is relatively easy.  #2 seems to require some complicated Win32 API calls.

Marco

You'll find some help here on setting up logging for printers.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/core/fnbe_prn_carw.mspx?mfr=true