How to monitor HP workstation temp in NPM

sperryd

HI, We monitor our HP server temperatures with NPM via HP Insight Manager. We also need to monitor the temperature on our HP Z440 workstations. Unfortunately HP Insight Manager does not support their Z440 workstations.

Using powershell on the Z440 I can query the sensors. How do I get NPM to read these values?

Here is the output of the powershell query:

PS C:\> Get-WmiObject -namespace "ROOT\HP\InstrumentedBIOS" -query "SELECT * FROM HPBIOS_BIOSNumericSensor WHERE InstanceName='ACPI\\PNP0C14\\3_13' "

__GENUS           : 2

__CLASS           : HPBIOS_BIOSNumericSensor

__SUPERCLASS      : HP_BIOSNumericSensor

__DYNASTY         : HP_BIOSSensor

__RELPATH         : HPBIOS_BIOSNumericSensor.InstanceName="ACPI\\PNP0C14\\3_13"

__PROPERTY_COUNT  : 14

__DERIVATION      : {HP_BIOSNumericSensor, HP_BIOSSensor}

__SERVER          : SWIL-S2-WS9

__NAMESPACE       : ROOT\HP\InstrumentedBIOS

__PATH            : \\SWIL-S2-WS9\ROOT\HP\InstrumentedBIOS:HPBIOS_BIOSNumericSensor.InstanceName="ACPI\\PNP0C14\\3_13"

Active            : True

BaseUnits         : 2

CurrentReading    : 39

CurrentState      : Normal

Description       : Reports CPU0 temperature

InstanceName      : ACPI\PNP0C14\3_13

Name              : CPU0 Temperature

OperationalStatus : 2

OtherSensorType   :

PossibleStates    : {Normal, Caution, Critical, Not Present}

RateUnits         : 0

SensorType        : 2

Size              : 4

UnitModifier      : 0

PSComputerName    : SWIL-S2-WS9

Thanks

conguir

Hi

if you can't install HP insight manager then SolarWinds NPM will not be able to monitor that metric I'm afraid. However you can always try to monitor the device using SNMP and check if there is any OID giving you the temperature.

For sure, you will be able to monitor it if you have Server and Application Monitor (SAM). This module allows you to get WMI statistics or even execute powershell scripts in order to extract data from your devices.

Raul Gonzalez

Prosperon - UK SolarWinds Partners

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