Print Spooler service monitoring

The best way to monitor a service is always to use the same communications in the monitor as a client would use to access the service.

So if it's LPR for example, that's a simple connect to the lpd... If you can't add an external monitor (EAV) to your BigIP, then the easiest (relative) method I can think of is to run a separate VM or container that does the checks and put a quick & dirty HTTP server interface on it. Then the bigIP can poll the HTTP interface to get up/down and the up/down can be based on the results that the container/vm gets from the print queue itself.

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