Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide

Monitoring Print Queues

To understand your print environment, it is necessary to examine the way the queues on the print servers are utilized. The MonitorPrintQueue.vbs script uses the Win32_PrintJob WMI class to obtain useful information about the load placed on your print servers. Because MonitorPrintQueue.vbs is based on previous scripts, you will look only at the Worker and Output information section of the script. You assign "Select * from Win32_PrintJob" to the wmiQuery variable in the Reference section. That is the only change required there.

Option Explicit 'On Error Resume Next Dim strComputer Dim wmiNS Dim wmiQuery Dim objWMIService Dim colItems Dim objItem Dim intTotalJobs Dim intTotalPages Dim intMaxPrintJob strComputer = "." wmiNS ...