Monitoring printers attched to a Windows print server cluster with Operations Manager

I am trying to configure SCOM 2012 R2 to monitor the individual printers that are managed with a Windows 2008 R2 Print Cluster. I have the management packs installed for Windows Clustering and Print Servers. When I view the print queue status in the
monitoring pane I see the locally installed printers on both of the nodes but none of the printers that are managed by the cluster services. What do I need to do to accomplish this task? Thank you!

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