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Cisco Switches, Fan Monitoring, Universal Device Polling, OIDs...Step by step for me the New Guy.

bmuster over 9 years ago

Hello Thwack Community,

I am in the process of pushing the limits of what Solarwinds can do for the school system I work for. I want to monitor the fan status of my core Cisco Switches (4500E). I downloaded the latest MIBs from Solarwinds, installed them on our Solarwinds server (via the instructions) and now I'm trying (without any success) to monitor more than just UP or DOWN of the online status of our devices.

Can someone point me in the right direction? A 101...step-by-step guide to do a simple...very simple UnDP example on a Cisco Switch??? (I don't care what OID...I just want a WIN...I've been striking out on this topic.)

Thank you in advance for any guidance the Thwack Community can show me.

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0 cnorborg over 9 years ago

You shouldn't need to use a custom poller to get fan status on a 4500 I don't believe... On the node summary under the resource "Current Hardware Health" it should show "Temperature" and "Other". Expand the "Other" and it should show you the fan status. This is from a 4507 on our network.
If it isn't showing up, go to "List Resources" on the node and make sure that "Hardware Health Sensors" is selected.
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0 cnorborg over 9 years ago

You shouldn't need to use a custom poller to get fan status on a 4500 I don't believe... On the node summary under the resource "Current Hardware Health" it should show "Temperature" and "Other". Expand the "Other" and it should show you the fan status. This is from a 4507 on our network.
If it isn't showing up, go to "List Resources" on the node and make sure that "Hardware Health Sensors" is selected.
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0 bmuster over 9 years ago in reply to cnorborg

Thank you Mr. Norborg.
I am able to get the Power Supply 1 & 2 Fan status to show, but not the temperature. And yes, you are absolutely right…I recently myself discovered that I shouldn’t need the UnDP.
I have a SolarWinds Tech. setting up a GoTo meeting…because I am missing a step or something in the procedure.
Thank you for the information.
Great Weekend.
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