Hardware Health and Network Infrastructure SNMP Monitors
Take an intuitive approach to network infrastructure monitoring
Easily customize SNMP monitors to track network infrastructure performance
One of the foundational ways to monitor network infrastructure is by using SNMP to track the performance of your SNMP-connected devices. SolarWinds® ipMonitor® lets you view real-time SNMP performance metrics from your central dashboard. Using ipMonitor lightweight SNMP Monitor, you can test an SNMP agent’s ability to respond to an information request and level of responsiveness. The SNMP Trap Monitor does not poll resources on timed intervals but listens for incoming SNMP traps and performs tests on the data it receives. To fit your unique performance standards, ipMonitor allows you to customize alert thresholds, such as SNMP agent response time and number of failures per alert.
To make your SNMP monitor setup as user-friendly as possible, ipMonitor includes a Custom SNMP Wizard to help you configure and deploy new SNMP monitors with minimal initial input. Customize your SNMP monitors to retrieve and analyze data from SNMP-enabled network devices, services, and applications in a way that fits your requirements.
Deploy hardware health monitors for battery, fan, humidity, and temperature
ipMonitor is designed to provide the monitors you need for ongoing insight into hardware performance and can alert in case metrics exceed set thresholds. Hardware monitors in ipMonitor are built to capture data more often than other monitors by default (from 300 to 60 seconds between tests) to help you ensure safer conditions.
ipMonitor includes the following hardware monitors:
- Battery Monitor - Tests the remaining charge in a battery, providing an accurate picture of battery health and current operational conditions
- Fan Monitor - Retrieves the current status of a fan, so you can ensure fans are operating within safe limits
- Humidity Monitor - Retrieves and analyzes the response received from a humidity sensor to assess humidity levels in a specific area, which is important as high humidity causes corrosion and low humidity causes static electricity
- Temperature Monitor - Retrieves and analyzes the response received from a temperature sensor to assess temperature levels in a specific area, which also has implications for safety and performance
Gain insight into performance with network equipment health monitors
As you deploy monitors across your network, ipMonitor can provide the visibility you need for network performance insights for everything from bandwidth to printers.
The Bandwidth Monitor uses RPC or SNMP to measure the amount of inbound and outbound traffic and the link status of a given network interface, whether a local or remote machine or another SNMP-enabled device. This is useful for detecting heavy bandwidth utilization or alerting if usage exceeds set thresholds.
ipMonitor also makes it easier to monitor the printers on your network, with a monitor that retrieves error conditions detected on the printer, including low paper, no paper, low toner, a hardware malfunction, or a need for maintenance service, so you receive alerts when it’s time to act.
Access other monitors included in SolarWinds ipMonitor
Additionally, SolarWinds ipMonitor offers other monitors in a range of categories, including user experience, Windows application and service, common ports, and database availability. Specific monitors include:
- SQL Server performance counters for Microsoft SQL Server health insights
- Active Directory monitor to understand connectivity
- Event Log monitor to locate error, warning, information, and other event log data
With ipMonitor, you can gain a bird’s-eye view from a central dashboard of key metrics across your network and systems.
Hardware health and network infrastructure SNMP monitors for detailed performance insight
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- Use SNMP monitors to help ensure device performance
- Create custom SNMP monitors to gain a specialized view into specific server and device types
- Get real-time hardware health monitor alerts
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