I have a device displaying this message "Alert me when any hardware component goes into a warning or critical state".
The error is on a port that is administratively shut.
I checked the alert on solarwinds and the trigger is set to when the hardware sensor is equal to warning and another when its equal to critical.
But the port itself is administratively down.
What would cause this?
We have the same problem. By the way, in our case, we do not monitor interfaces that are in ADMIN DOWN state. You would think that SolarWinds would be smart enough to ignore interfaces that are in ADMIN DOWN status.
Also, I called SolarWinds tech support and they said I'd need to manually disable the hardware sensors for the ADMIN DOWN interfaces. That's no fun!!! 
We have the same problem. By the way, in our case, we do not monitor interfaces that are in ADMIN DOWN state. You would think that SolarWinds would be smart enough to ignore interfaces that are in ADMIN DOWN status.
Also, I called SolarWinds tech support and they said I'd need to manually disable the hardware sensors for the ADMIN DOWN interfaces. That's no fun!!!
