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How can air conditioning units of data center be monitored using SolarWinds SAM.

The model of the units is Stulz CyberOne COS-120-AR-D-EC with E2 Microprocessor Controllers. In such a case how can monitoring be established.

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andeporter

I'm not very familiar w/ those units, so I would ask a few questions:

1. Do they have NIC ports?

2. Do they support SNMP?

If so, it should be a fairly straightforward process.

Otherwise, you could get yourself a few network monitoring devices that do support SNMP and go from there.

onsia

They are CRAC (Air conditioning units) manufacturer is slutz. Yes they do support SNMP. Can you please provide more details on how can snmp be used for monitoring them?

rschroeder

Configure snmp-v3 on them for read-only, no read-write.
Add them as nodes to NPM.
Ensure NPM can ping and discover them via snmp-v3.
Build alerts and/or custom pollers if needed in NPM so you get the information you need from them.

andeporter

Setup SNMP on the devices, and then setup some logging monitors in LEM. From there, you can generate whatever rules/alerts (bells/whistles) you would like.

onsia

We have configured SNMP V2 on the devices.

The corresponding OIDs seem to be not supported by the Devices. Is there a way by which Temperature and Humidity can be monitored.

andeporter

You could go with an external solution: AVTECH - Monitor Temperature and Environment Conditions with Room Alert Devices and GoToMyDevices... Anywhere... Anytime…

rschroeder

A custom poller is your likely solution. Universal Device Pollers (UnDP) included with NPM may also help.

Search Thwack for "Custom Poller" and you'll find some resources like this one:

bobmarley

You can see if the manufacturer has a mib available and if so you can create custom pollers for the metrics that you want to monitor.

Alternately if documentation is not available you could do a MIB walk of one of the air conditioners and see what it returns. The tool to do that is

buried in a subdirectory in your NPM server.