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I'm looking for a way to create a smart group based on the URI of a printer.



For example, if the URI of a printer is ipp://127.0.0.1, I would want a smart group that looks for any printers with 127.0. in it.



Is this possible at all, maybe with an extension attribute?

You could create a smart group using the criteria "Printers Mapped is <nameOfPrinter>" but if you want to specifically target the URI then you would need an extension attribute. After a quick look, it would appear this would actually be pretty straightforward as we can utilize lpstat to get printer information from client machines. Here's a quick and dirty way you could do this:



#!/bin/sh

printerURI="ipp://127.0.0.1"

isInstalled="False"



if [ "$(lpstat -p -v | grep $printerURI)" ] ; then

    isInstalled="True"

fi



echo "<result>$isInstalled</result">


You can change printerURI to "printerURI=$4" and then define the printer URI within the JSS script parameters instead of hardcoding it. The above example is far from robust or exhaustive, but you get the idea :)

Thanks! Solved.

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