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You have spent a lot of time and effort in planning the monitoring
of your network infrastructure. This includes providing for
sufficient capacity, processing power and bandwidth. However,
all this may come to naught if basic physical and environmental
conditions are not maintained. Over heated server and network
rooms could result in the failure of equipment or minimally
reduce their useful life. Server and network equipment vendors
are realizing this and adding probes that can report on physical
conditions like temperature and available power. WhatsUp Gold
continues to track these introductions and bring them under
its monitoring umbrella. Custom monitors can easily be set up
if your equipment exposes SNMP MIB objects for any physical
conditions.
Current hardware monitors supported by WhatsUp Gold include:
American Power Conversion (APC) Uninterruptible Power Supply
(UPS)
The APC active monitor enables immediate monitoring of over
60 different parameters. APC UPS devices are monitored and alerts
are sent when selected thresholds are met or exceeded, output
states are reached, and/or abnormal conditions are met.
Available in the Premium, Distributed and MSP edition of
WhatsUp Gold, the APC performance monitor enables immediate
monitoring of output power usage. Any APC UPS’s discovered are
automatically monitored. Status is provided via graphs in the
workspace reports.
Temperature
WhatsUp Gold obtains internal device temperature measurements
from Cisco switches and routers, Dell servers, HP Procurve switches
and external temperature measurement devices from Ravica.
Fan
WhatsUp Gold automatically obtains internal fan status from
Cisco switches and routers, Dell servers, Dell Powerconnect
switches and routers and HP Procurve switches.
Power Supply
WhatsUp Gold automatically obtains internal power supply
status from Cisco switches and routers, Dell servers, Dell PowerConnect
switches and routers and HP Procurve switches.
Printer
The printer active monitor supports any manufacturer equipment
that supports the IETF Printer MIB, RFC 3805. Any printers found
to support the Printer MIB during the network discovery process,
are automatically assigned preconfigured active monitor. Pre-configured
performance monitors tracking ink/toner levels for example,
are also automatically assigned with WhatsUp Gold Premium, Distributed
or MSP versions.
Typical Problem Solving Scenarios
WhatsUp Gold enables you to identify and remediate potential
problems resulting from sub-optimal operating conditions for
hardware equipment:
- WhatsUp Gold sends alerts when the UPS battery capacity
is below a configurable threshold, or the battery temperature
is high, or when the battery is in bypass mode due to a
battery overload state.
- High temperatures can cause devices to malfunction,
and can be tracked through performance monitors or split
second graphing
- When potential problems are identified with fan operation
they need to be replaced, as inaction can lead to downstream
issues with high temperature and resulting failure
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