Any of you build Custom Views for UPS and PDU devices?

dmueller_fanatics.com

Have any of you created custom views for your UnDP Pollers for APC, Eaton, and other UPS Units?  How about for PDUs?  Anyone interested in sharing samples of your pages and samples to give ideas on how you did it?  I need to build views that show the telemetry from our UPS Units, which of course is voluminous when you take into account the sheer number of devices spread across the globe.  Add in the fact that we have different manufacturers and models to account for, and then the fact that acceptable levels of measurements for "Country A" are different then they are for "Country B", so not only is displaying the information problematic, but alerting becomes mind-wracking at best.

Any way, I need to display: 
Input Source (Street/Utility or Battery) and telemetry for Voltage & Current,
Output readings (Demand) for Voltage, Current, Watts, and all the Battery Readings, Battery Runtime Remaining, which is especially difficult as SNMP provides this as text in a time-format (00:00:00) but SW doesn't support displaying it that way.  Then there's all the Extended Runtime Battery and Environmental (Temp, Humidity) Telemetry.

Also, while we're standardizing on APC,  we're also a global enterprise, so due to acquisitions and mergers, we have a good mixture of APC, Eaton, MGE, and a few others out there, all of which handle monitoring telemetry very differently (Electricians, go figure...) .  I end up needing to build separate Views for each Manufacturers' Device Type , and of course, I also need to build them for our Switched & Metered PDUs - to show the Input Voltage, along with the state and demand for each receptacle, and a RO ability to reset the power on individual receptacles.  When you add all this up, there's thousands of things to display, and it's just a bit overwhelming without some templates to build off if, to say the least.

I would appreciate comments on how all of you tackled these issues.

marcrobinson

You hit the struggles on the head. Yes, I developed custom UDP poller for multiple vendors and custom views based on manufacturer. This also means you ideally need custom alert rules. The other concern - you will want to increase the udp polling rate for some metrics like onBattery, or things like Input Power Source. Those will often feed alerts. The charting ones - like Remaining time on battery - also consider increasing the polling rate. For the views, you can use the charts in the classic dashboards to show the input voltage. The good news - this a once and done for the most part. You design the UDP, the views, alerts, and any reports and then just apply them. Emerson has a FLEX-MIB - the values can vary, and many are not numeric, so SAM script templates are necessary. APC is fairly standardized which is a good thing. I have not mucked with PDUs much yet. The difference in countries rates will make things interesting, but it should be same MIB, similar OIDs. Just tweak the monitors and dashboards. Again - minor tweaks, and you are good. Consider using some custom properties to keep things orderly too.