I would like to recieve a email, if a power supply shuts down. We have switches that have 2 power supply, and sometimes one of the supplies can shutdown.
Is it possible to receive a email if this happends? I am using Solarwinds web
By "Solarwinds web" I presume you men the GUI frontend to SolarWinds?
Under that assumption then yes, you can do just that. If you use NPM and have one of the supported switches being monitored via SNMP (e.g. Cisco, HP, and others) then you just need to enable hardware health monitors and then build your alert around that. There is an out of the box alert you can enable called 'hardware sensor'.
If your switch is a non-supported version (i.e.SolarWinds says something like "hardware health is in an unknown state") then you need to find the specific OIDs for your devices and build n UnDP and then alert off of that.Sorry for the vague response, but if you can supply more information I can better help?
I am using a Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switch and I have 2 power supplies. "Switch 4 - power supply A" and "Switch 4 - power supply B". I would like to recieve a email, if one of the power supplies go down.
I am new to the solarwinds universe. I know that it is possible to create alerts for it.. But I am not sure how..
When a power supply I can see the following informations in solarwinds:Event summary - power capacity changed
syslog - switch 4: power supply b is not responding
Right - so are you using SolarWinds NPM (aka network performance monitor)?
well it is not a client. I connect through a web browser. Hope that makes sense
looks like it is yea
At the bottom of the GUI window you'll have a line that looks like this:
Contents will vary depending on your licenses, but it will need to include NPM.
Anyway, first step is to ensure you've enabled hardware health monitoring. So find the node and go to its main properties page - or find it by using >Settings >manage Nodes and then type in the IP or name and search.Once you've located it, either click on the 'List Resources' - or if via manage nodes, click the checkbox next to it and then 'List Resources' at the top. Either way will take you to the relevant page. Right at the top you will see something like this:
Put a tick in the checkbox for 'Hardware Health', scroll down and click submit.
Once you do that, a widget should appear on the node property page called 'Current Hardware Health' that will look something like this:
N.B. nothing will appear until the device polls so depending on your polling intervals this could be from almost immediate to several minutes.
So that's step one done. You've enabled hardware health.
Step 2 is to create an alert.
For this go to Settings > All Settings > Alerts & Reports > Manage Alerts. There may be a 'baked in' or out of box alert. If so, use the search box and search for PSU or hardware health or similar. If not, then welcome to the world of creating alerts.If you find an out of box one, then you can 'duplicate & edit' but if not just hit 'add new alert'. Hopefully the screens are mostly self-explanatory, but the key ones are 'trigger condition' and 'trigger actions'.For trigger condition, we use this:
You will have to satisfy yourself as to what logic you need, but the key part is highlighted. Essentially the above alert says:- So long as hardware health is enabled - and if the sensor is in either warning OR critical then do what the trigger action says.
Trigger action is fun but minimum you want is:
- make an entry to the NetPerfMon Event Log as this will allow you to see the history of events, etc and- add another action of some form and that greatly depends on your environment and what you use software wise.
But one of the easiest would be 'send an email'.
Hope this helps you?
I should add that if you aren't the admin of SolarWinds then you will need to have been given appropriate permissions to do the above.
