Physical Sensor Monitored Attribute Form

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The Physical Sensor Monitored Attribute form displays information about the attribute selected on the Physical Sensor Form: Monitored Attributes Tab.

Physical Sensors for fault monitoring include the following:

  • Fan
  • Power Supply
  • Temperature
  • Voltage

(NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics) If the Network Node Manager iSPI Performance for Metrics Software is installed and configured within your environment, the NNMi administrator can also configure Performance monitoring and thresholds for the following:

  • Backplane Utilization

    Threshold based on the percentage of backplane usage compared to the total amount of available backplane resources.

NNMi obtains fault metric information from the associated MIB.

Basics Attributes

Attribute

Description

Label

Name used to identify the attribute being monitored.

The Name of each health attribute identifies the attribute being measured as well as the type of MIB used to gather this information.

Unique Key Used as a unique identifier for the Monitored Attribute. Any Monitored Attribute provided by NNMi begins with the prefix com.hp.nms.
State

Normalized value used to indicate the State of the attribute of the selected node. Possible values are listed below.

Note The NNMi State Poller interprets and normalizes the State value returned for the monitored attribute to handle the differences between vendor-specific nodes.

  Normal - Indicates there are no known problems related to the associated object.

  Warning - Indicates there might be a problem related to the associated object.

  Minor - Indicates NNMi has detected problems related to the associated object that require further investigation.

  Major - Indicates NNMi detected problems that could precede a critical situation.

  Critical - Indicates NNMi detected problems that require immediate attention.

The following values indicate NNMi could not gather the required data:

  Agent Error – Indicates an error was returned in response to the query.

  No Polling Policy - No polling policy exists for this monitored attribute.

  Not Polled - Indicates that this attribute is intentionally not polled, based on current Monitoring Configuration settings, current Communication Configuration settings, or because the parent Node is set to Not Managed or Out of Service. This object attribute might or might not have an associated polling policy.

  Not Provided — The device does not support providing information for this monitored attribute.

 Unavailable - The agent responded with a value outside the range of possible values or returned a null value.

  Unset – Currently not used by NNMi.

Note State is determined by the State Poller Service. Only the Physical Sensor States for Fan and Power Supply contribute towards the status calculation for the host node. See the Status tab for more information.

(NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics) Additional States for performance metrics include the following (Warning and Critical states are not used for performance metrics):

  Abnormal Range – Indicates State Poller has collected values outside the normal range when compared to the baseline data collected for the current object.

  Normal - Indicates there are no known problems related to the associated object.

  Normal Range - Indicates State Poller collected values within the normal range when compared to the baseline data collected for the current object.

  High - The High threshold was crossed.

  Low - The Low threshold was crossed.

  None - The threshold value returned is zero.

Last Modified The most recent date and time when the State of this Monitored Attribute changed.