Monitoring ESXI host ambient temperature

What is the physical hardware you are running for the ESX Host? An example I have used is monitoring the Temperature through the HP ILO or Dell iDRAC hardware sensors. Setup SNMP on these management ports to query those metrics.

Hi Stevenstadel, thank you for your assistance. i have both  Dell and HP ESXI host running both IDRAC and ILO. I also have snmp setup to monitor them. Infact, if i click on a specific host on vman, i am able to see the temperature. I would like to get an alert if i could get a dashboard that can display such alerts that would be an icing on the cake. Thank you for your assistance. 

Hi Mickdon, Here is a quick alerting scope example. 

For a dashboard widget, you can use something like a Custom table. Here is an example to show just Hardware Temps records over 80. For us t looks like we are polling in Degrees C not F, something to consider.

Thank you stevenstadel for your suggestion. I already tried a variation of that. 

I want to alert on <hardware sensor (node>

The scope of alert

    only following set of objects   

All Objects where  

      All child condition must be statisfied and 

       Node   machine type equal to vmware esx server

      hardware sensor (node)   hardware type name is equal to temperature

    hardware sensor unique name is equal to    other 1 01 iniet ambient

   hardware sensor node unique name    is equal to  other 2 38 - front ambient

At least one child condition must be satisfied or 

      Hardware sensor node     value       is less than or equal to    83

     Hardware sensor node     Unit           is  equal    to       F

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Just to test i got no result 

It looks like the problem is in your scope. My HP ILO's have a Machine Type of Compaq (that's going a ways back!) Start your scope more broadly and then focus it. I like to define a scope by starting with a report to make sure I am getting the right components before creating the alert. That way I can make sure I am alerting on the right things.

That is very valid Sir! I believe that my machines are not reporting in Fahrenheit. I removed everything in the alert and just created an alert for machines that are in Fahrenheit and non showed up. I then changed it to celcius and I had multiple hits.

Here lies my confusing, when I search for the nodes on solarwinds, and go to Temperature under Current hardware Health the ESXI hosts are reporting in Fahrenheit. 

I 'll keep troubleshooting and keep you updated. Thank you for your assistance StevenStadel! 

The database stores data in the vendor's default unit of measurement. Typically, the industry standard is to report temperatures in Celsius. SolarWinds does the conversion automatically to show the different values in the GUI in Fahrenheit based on your User Settings. Change hardware health temperature units (solarwinds.com)

The database stores data in the vendor's default unit of measurement. Typically, the industry standard is to report temperatures in Celsius. SolarWinds does the conversion automatically to show the different values in the GUI in Fahrenheit based on your User Settings. Change hardware health temperature units (solarwinds.com)