Monitor hardware health
This topic applies only to the following products:
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted
NAM — NPM — NTA — SAM — SRM
Hardware health monitoring provides immediate insight into hardware issues on your network. It shows whether your devices are in Up, Warning, Critical, or Unknown states.
Supported devices: Aruba, Cisco, Dell, F5, Fortinet, FortiSwitch, HP, Juniper devices, and Arista 7500E chassis.
The SolarWinds Platform does not support hardware health monitoring for Meraki organizations because these do not expose hardware health information via SNMP or API.
When you add a device for monitoring, hardware health polling is enabled by default.
Hardware health statistics are polled through SNMP from the device’s MIB tree.
Requirements
If hardware health polling does not work as expected, verify the following:
- Polling hardware health statistics is enabled.
- For Cisco devices, the correct MIB is selected.
- The correct sensors are enabled for the nodes.
Click here to learn about hardware health monitoring requirements in SolarWinds SAM, which involves downloading third-party agent software for supported devices.
Monitored Hardware Sensors
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SolarWinds Platform Web Console widgets
To learn about widgets (formerly called "resources") shared by several SolarWinds Platform products, see SolarWinds Platform online help. For example, the following Hardware Health widgets are available in NPM, SAM, and VMAN, and are documented in SolarWinds Platform online help.