Monitoring the status of the power supply is very important as it aids in preventing unplanned downtime and hardware failure due to voltage drops or peaks. An unstable power supply can cause hardware failure. By proactively monitoring the health of the power supply, you can avoid such issues and maintain a stable and available environment for your customer at all times. SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (SolarWinds NPM) can assist you with proactive monitoring. SolarWinds has built-in features that enable monitoring of the power supply health for your network devices and servers. Once you enable the hardware health monitoring feature on your device, SolarWinds can oversee the power supply health of that device, providing information like whether the power supply status is up, or whether it’s in a critical or normal state, etc. In this article, we will explore how to monitor the power supply status of your network device, and set up alerts to detect any problems in your network device’s power supply using SolarWinds’ advanced alerting feature. To learn more about SolarWinds and to try this feature, please click on this link.
Monitoring the Power Supply of Your Network Device
While adding a network device, such as a router, switch, firewall, or any other device, ensure that the Hardware Health Sensors are checked for monitoring. Hardware Health Sensors are enabled by default for devices supported by SolarWinds. If you are unable to see hardware information as illustrated below, check whether the device is part of the supported device list from SolarWinds. Refer to this link for the list of supported devices. If the device is part of the supported devices and you are still unable to see the hardware details for it, follow the steps below to fix this.
How to Check the Power Supply Status of Your Network Device
Follow the below steps to check the power supply status of your network device. Using Solarwinds NPM’s hardware health monitoring feature, you can monitor your Network device’s power supply in detail to avoid any potential threat to the device. Now let’s see how to create alerts for your network device’s power supply status to alert whenever the power status goes to critical or down.
Creating an Alert on the Power Supply Status of Your Network Device
Follow the below steps to create an alert on the power supply status of your network device. This is how we can configure an alert for power supply status for your network or any other device using SolarWinds. Using SolarWinds NPM’s advanced monitoring and alerting capabilities, you can easily monitor the device’s power supply status and act proactively to avoid unwanted downtime and keep your environment up and running all the time.
