Hello,
I have a bit of an odd question. I'm trying to count the number of jobs (in an effort to count separator pages printed) output to our HP network printers, which all have shared print queues setup on 2 print server 2008 R2 nodes. I've found lots of powershell scripts to parse event 307 or 805 out of the Windows System event log (after turning print logging on), which would be awesome. Unfortunately our server team doesn't want extra stuff bogging down the log file and causing the things they want in it to be washed out (apparently they have the log relatively small).
So I'm looking for any way to count the number of jobs (preferably also with the printer name) that go through the server each day. If anyone could even point me the right direction for a way to do that I'd appreciate it. The only things I've come up with are installing a 3rd party tracking program (which takes multiple steps of approval/testing, which takes a while), or somehow tracking how often the file for the separator page gets accessed (which I don't even know if that's possible)
Thanks!
Shahad