Hardware Monitoring Software
WhatsUp Gold's Advanced Hardware Monitoring Software is the ultimate solution for managing your network infrastructure that enables you to identify and remediate potential problems resulting from sub-optimal operating conditions for hardware equipment.
Ensure the Physical Condition of Network Equipment
Overheated 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. APC performance monitors enable 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 equipment that supports the IETF Printer MIB, RFC 3805. Any printers found to support the Printer MIB are automatically assigned pre-configured active monitors to monitoring things like ink/toner levels.
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