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Hardware Power Supply

PATROL Class: MS_HW_POWERSUPPLY - Monitor Type: MONITOR - Monitor Category: System
No CDM Class defined.

Monitors a specific power supply. Power supply is a highly critical device of a computer that should never fail. Because of that, many vendors build servers with redundant power supplies. Monitoring power supplies allows the operators to be alerted when a power supply fails, or even in some cases when a power supply is overloaded.

Attributes (Parameters)

Name PATROL Name Units Default Thresholds Description
Present Present 0 = Missing
1 = Present

 ALARM
if = 0 (Missing)

Indicates whether the power supply is found or not.

Value set by powerSupplyColl.

Type: Availability

Status Status 0 = OK
1 = Degraded
2 = Failed

 WARN
if = 1 (Degraded)

 ALARM
if = 2 (Failed)

Power supply status.

Value set by powerSupplyColl.

Type: Availability - Default graph

Status Information StatusInformation None None

Additional (textual) information about the current status of the power supply.

Value set by powerSupplyColl.

Type: Text

Used Capacity UsedCapacity % None

Percentage of the power supply power currently in use, if available. An alert is triggered when the power supply’s maximum power output is reached.

Value set by powerSupplyColl.

Note: Alert thresholds are set automatically by Hardware Sentry which should not be customized or modified.

Type: Statistics

Infoboxes (PATROL Console Only)

Name Description
PATROL ID PATROL internal identifier for the power supply instance.
Power Supply Information ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Type Type of the power supply.
Power Maximum power output.
Device ID ID of the monitored power supply as communicated by the instrumentation layer.
Identifying Information Any additional information available for the power supply.
Connector Information ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Connector Display Name Display name of the connector currently used to monitor the power supply.
Connector ID PATROL ID of the connector currently used to monitor the power supply.
Connector File Name File name of the connector currently used to monitor the power supply.
Connector Version Version number of the connector.
Connector Date Connector build date.
Menu Command Description
Instant Hardware Health Report Displays a text box recapitulating miscellaneous information regarding the monitored device (properties of the object, its parameters, thresholds, etc.).
Pause Monitoring Pauses the monitoring of the selected power supply.
Resume Monitoring Resumes the monitoring of the selected power supply.
Remove Removes the power supply from the monitoring environment.
Refresh Parameters Refreshes all power supply parameters.
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