Environmental Monitoring?

Question

Is there a way to get Orion to monitor/graph/alarm off of environmental monitors such as temperature/humidity and such?  This would be a really nice feature to have if it doesn't exist.  I know that some routers and such have some basic environmental monitors (input/output temperature and such), but it would also be nice to monitor the standalone temperature/humidity probes that exist out there.

Craig Norborg
Network Analyst
Robert Bosch Corporation

yaquaholic · Answer

Try this bit of SQL in your Database Manager to help identify what you're looking for (in my case Temperature). It should match what you're seeing from the Environmental Monitors:

SELECT hi.DisplayName, hi.Value, hu.HtmlText, hi.NodeID

FROM APM_HardwareItem hi

INNER JOIN APM_HardwareUnit hu

ON hi.Unit = hu.ID

WHERE hi.IsDeleted = 0

AND hi.HasHistoricalData = 1

AND hi.NodeID = 22  -- <-- Insert the Node ID here to see all available data for that device<--

DisplayNameValueHtmlTextNodeIDSW#1, Sensor#1, GREEN34°C22SW#2, Sensor#1, GREEN34°C22

Then you can refine the query until you get just the Value field, from which you can create an SQL alert condition.

Network_Guru · Answer

Do a search for Custom MIB in this forum.

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This question & feature has been asked for many times before - the current answer is no.
Perhaps in Release 10.0?

-=Cheers=-
          NG

mlane · Answer

I am also interested in this.  I would like to have both the routers/switches (cisco in my case) and the stand-alone probe environmental monitoring available from within Orion.  If nothing else a configurable alert for this would be a great addition.  Does anyone know if this is already available and I'm missing the boat?

Thanks!

Michelle Lane
Network Administrator
Linfield College