Getting Started

Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL® enables administrators to monitor the hardware of their diverse servers. This is a single KM that is able to monitor the hardware of different server brands: IBM®, HP®, DELL®, Sun Microsystems®, NEC®, Fujitsu-Siemens® and many others.
Once installed, Hardware Sentry automatically detects the environment and starts monitoring the hardware: status of the disks and the RAID controllers, temperature of the system, speed of the fans, power supply, enclosure, voltage etc.

Additionally, Hardware Sentry can be configured to monitor devices remotely where a PATROL Agent cannot be installed on: blade chassis, disk arrays, fiber switches and tape libraries.

How does it work?

Hardware Sentry is a KM that allows PATROL to monitor computer hardware (disk status, temperatures, etc.). It gathers hardware information from different sources (vendor-specific agents, standard management technologies, SNMP, WBEM, etc.) and displays this information within the PATROL framework.

For optimal functioning, Hardware Sentry needs certain hardware information sources to be available. Depending on the platform, it relies on vendor-specific agents and/or on standard management technology such as WBEM or SNMP. On startup, Hardware Sentry automatically detects which hardware information source is available and then uses this source to monitor the hardware of the computer.

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Monitoring with Hardware Sentry KM for Patrol

•	The DELL OpenManage Server Administrator agent exposes the temperatures, the fans, the power supplies and the voltages of the DELL PowerEdge server through SNMP.

•	The DELL OpenManage Storage Manager agent exposes the status of the physical and logical disks of the DELL PERC RAID Controller through SNMP.

•	The Windows WMI provider shows the status of the physical disks attached to the standard SCSI Controller.

•	Hardware Sentry detects and automatically connects to all three information sources (DELL OpenManager Server Administrator, DELL OpenManage Storage Manager and Windows WMI provider).

•	Hardware Sentry gathers the useful hardware information from these sources and displays it within the PATROL framework

Please bear in mind that this is only an example and that it could be applied to IBM, NEC, HP and other computers.