Printer Connection Test & Data Collector Tool.

• This GUI tool was designed to test HP & Xerox Printer Connectivity, and to collect HP/Xerox printer mib information.

Table of Contents

• General Info
• Technologies Used
• Features
• Setup
• Usage
• Contact

General Information

• This project was developed for the requirements of a large customer with an inconsistent fleet configuration.
• The purpose of this project is to enable the customer to perform discovery on HP & Xerox Devices on the existing printer estate.
• Due to the technical challenges around device configurations, a tool was required to enable the team to feed in 30,000 IP's, and 1500+ SNMP Community strings from a CSV file based on a location identifier.
• Some printers had ICMP turned off.
• All printers allowed HTTP(s) Connections.
• Printers hostname was unique - DNS FQDN naming convention partly used the printer vendor name. This could be used to identify printer type during discovery.
• This tool tests printer connectivity via ICMP, HTTP/s and DNS, it also collects device information via SNMP and outputs results to a csv file for analysis.

Technologies Used

• Python - version >=3.10.5 - https://docs.python.org/3/
  • Modules - https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/modules.html
    • csv - https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html#module-csv
    • os - https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#module-os
    • os.path - https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html
    • datetime - https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html
    • pysnmp - https://pypi.org/project/pysnmp/
    • sys - https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html
    • re - https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#module-re
    • clipboard - https://pypi.org/project/clipboard/
    • PySimpleGUI - https://www.pysimplegui.org/en/latest/
    • requests - https://pypi.org/project/requests/
    • pysnmp - https://pysnmp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
    • urllib3 - https://pypi.org/project/urllib3/

Features

The tool provides the following capabilities:

• Printer Connection Checker. (Is there a printer on the IP? What Type?)

  • Ingest Printer information from CSV (Location ID, Printer IP, Vendor Default SNMP Community String).
  • Test Printer Connectivity via ICMP Ping.
  • Test Printer Connectivity via HTTP(s) Request. (Some Devices had ICMP Disabled but HTTP enabled).
  • HTTP check will do a web scrape and look for HP/Xerox identifiers to see what type of vendor the web service is running on.
  • Resolve Printer DNS to FQDN. (Customer used naming conventions for each printer vendor to allow for identification via CSV analaysis).
  • Output of results / information to csv format.
  • Output of logging for all functions to txt file.

• SNMP Password Checker / Brute Forcer. (What Password matches what location/printer?)

  • Ingest SNMP Community passwords from csv (Location ID, SNMP Community String for Site).
  • Ingest Printer information from csv (Location ID, Printer IP, Vendor Default SNMP Community String).
  • This function will try to match the printer csv Location ID, to the passwords csv Location ID.
  • If there is a location match between printers and passwords, matched SNMP Community string ID will be used.
  • If no match then it defaults to the printers default SNMP password in printers csv.
  • The function will use either the location matched SNMP password, or the vendor default SNMP password to try and extract the printer serial number with said password.
  • If the SNMP Password used doesn't work, the serial value in output csv will be blank.
  • Output of results / information to csv format.
  • Output of logging for all functions to txt file.

• SNMP Printer Data Collector (IPs and SNMP Passwords from previous two features can be fed into this DCA!)

  • Ingest Printer information from CSV (Location ID, Printer IP, SNMP Community String).
  • The tool is designed to collect the following SNMP OID data;
    • Site Code (Trigram)
    • Device Description (Model)
    • IP Address
    • MAC Address
    • Hostname
    • Location
    • Mono Counts
    • Color Counts
    • Total Counts
    • Serial
    • SNMPGET Community String
    • System Information (Firmware Versions)
  • Output of results / information to csv format.
  • Output of logging for all functions to txt file.

• CSV File Viewer

  • Feature allows to select a CSV and then presents the information in a GUI Table.
  • Designed to be used if tool is being executed from a server with no excel for example.
  • Easier to view thousands of entries when not on a desktop.

Screenshots

Setup

• Setup the project from source files;

  • Download and install Python >=3.10.5 from https://www.python.org/downloads/

  • Ensure Python is added to environment SYS Path.

  • Clone this repo to local file system.

  • Install deps from the provided requirements.txt file as per below;

    pip3 install -r requirements.txt
    

Usage

• Running the project from source files;

  • Ensure all Dependencies are installed.

  • Populate the CSV file(s) as per the example entry provided.

  • Run

    python -m  nagini
    

  • Check Output dir for output results and logs dir for error logs.

Notes

• All of the code is tested and the tool works.
• Some of the code still needs refactoring into a decent state, i was in a rush! :o)
• Some of the information on this README, and comments in code was to accomodate Code / Security Reviews.
• I'm not responsible for how this tool is used.