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 condition and overall state (Up, Warning, Critical, or Unknown) of devices on your network.
How hardware health polling works
Hardware health statistics are polled from sensors via SNMP from the device’s MIB tree. Hardware health polling is enabled by default when you add the device.
Supported vendors or devices
- Arista 7500E chassis
- Aruba
- Check Point
- Cisco
- Cisco IronPort
- Dell
- F5
- Fortinet
- FortiSwitch
- HP
- Juniper devices
The SolarWinds Platform does not support hardware health monitoring for Meraki organizations because these do not expose hardware health information via SNMP or API.
Requirements
- Enable hardware health polling for the node.
- Make sure that correct sensors are enabled for the nodes.
- For Cisco devices, make sure the correct MIB is selected.
- For Arista, Aruba, and Cisco devices, ensure that polling sensor statuses is configured correctly.
- For Aruba devices, ensure that the correct poller is selected.
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 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.