About Hardware Monitoring

Summary | Hardware Status tab

The Hardware Status feature provides the administrator with the ability to monitor critical hardware components and proactively set alerts about them. It monitors hardware information about fans, voltage, temperature, etc. on Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)-enabled devices.

Note: IWSVA hardware monitoring is only compatible with the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) with Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) v2.0 support installed on bare metal.

Administrators can query the hardware status information using the IWSVA Web console or by SNMP request. If SNMP trap is enabled, an alert will be sent when critical system events are detected, such as “temperature threshold exceeded”, “voltage threshold exceeded”, etc.

At Summary | Hardware Status tab, you can see the following information:

Interface Status—The following icons represent the status of the interface:

Icon	Description
	Link not detected. Could be an empty port, cable may be loose or broken, or the peer machine may be down.
	Link OK
	Link error
	Link disabled
D	Data interface
M	Management interface
H	High availability interface

Hardware Type—shows Voltage, Fan, CPU, Storage and Temperature statistics
Status—shows the current status of the hardware. Usually it shows "Normal," but if an abnormal event occurs, it displays Critical or Failed, depending on the event. The five available status are:
Normal—Component status is ok
Warning—Component status is compromised
Critical—Component status is in danger of failing
Failed—Component is not working
Unknown—No component information is available
Sensor Information—displays information about the status of the type of hardware monitored.

Alerts can be sent to notify administrators of any problems. They are configured at: Notification > SNMP Notifications Settings > Hardware monitoring events (check box).

Hardware alert events are recorded in the system event log.

SNMP Queries and Traps

Administrators can poll the hardware status using SNMP queries and receive alerts through SNMP traps. To do this, administrators need import the hardware-monitoring MIB file into an SNMP tool like the iReasoning MIB Browser.

IWSVA also supports two standard MIB files for network interface card statistics:

RFC1213-MIB
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB

These are available from:

http://www.simpleweb.org/ietf/mibs/

The third Trend Micro-specific MIB for hardware events monitoring is located on the Trend Micro download site.

TM-HWMONITOR-MIB

To receive traps from IWSVA, administrators need configure the SNMP trap destination.