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PRTG Manual: Redfish System Health Sensor

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The Redfish System Health sensor monitors the system health of a Redfish Scalable Platforms Management API (Redfish)-capable server.

Redfish System Health Sensor

For a detailed list and descriptions of the channels that this sensor can show, see section Channel List.

Sensor in Other Languages

Dutch: Redfish Systeemstatus
French: Redfish état du système
German: Redfish Systemzustand
Japanese: Redfish システム正常性
Portuguese: Saúde do sistema Redfish
Russian: Работоспособность системы Redfish
Simplified Chinese: Redfish 系统健康状况
Spanish: Salud del sistema Redfish

Remarks

Consider the following remarks and requirements for this sensor:

Remark	Description
Credentials	This sensor requires credentials for Redfish in settings that are higher in the object hierarchy.
Read permissions	This sensor requires at least read permissions for the target system. Without sufficient permissions to a subsystem, the sensor will show the Down status.
Supermicro	If you want to monitor Supermicro, then this sensor requires full administrator access.
IPv6	This sensor supports IPv6.
Performance impact	This sensor has a very low performance impact.
Lookups	This sensor uses lookups to determine the status values of one or more channels.
Redfish support	Supporters of the Redfish standard include Dell, Eaton, Emerson, Fujitsu, HPE, Intel, Lenovo, NetApp, Supermicro, and VMware.
Multi-platform probe	You can add this sensor to a multi-platform probe.

Basic Sensor Settings

The sensor has the following default tags that are automatically predefined in the sensor's settings when you add the sensor:

redfish
restsensor

For more information about basic sensor settings, see section Sensor Settings.

Redfish Specific

The information in the Redfish Specific settings reflects the status of the system at the time of sensor creation. If any setting changes after creation, the Redfish Specific settings do not reflect the change. Add the sensor anew to update the displayed settings.

Setting	Description
Name	The name of the system that this sensor monitors.
Model	The model of the system that this sensor monitors.
Manufacturer	The manufacturer of the system that this sensor monitors.
Serial Number	The serial number of the system that this sensor monitors.
Asset Tag	The asset tag of the system that this sensor monitors.

Sensor Display

Setting	Description
Primary Channel	Select a channel from the list to define it as the primary channel. In the device tree, PRTG displays the last value of the primary channel below the sensor's name. The available options depend on what channels are available for this sensor. You can set a different primary channel later by clicking below a channel gauge on the sensor's Overview tab.
Graph Type	Define how this sensor shows different channels: Show channels independently (default): Show a graph for each channel. Stack channels on top of each other: Stack channels on top of each other to create a multi-channel graph. This generates a graph that visualizes the different components of your total traffic. You cannot use this option in combination with manual Vertical Axis Scaling (available in the channel settings).
Stack Unit	This setting is only visible if you select Stack channels on top of each other above. Select a unit from the list. PRTG stacks all channels with this unit on top of each other. By default, you cannot exclude single channels from stacking if they use the selected unit. However, there is an advanced procedure to do so.

Setting

Description

Primary Channel

Select a channel from the list to define it as the primary channel. In the device tree, PRTG displays the last value of the primary channel below the sensor's name. The available options depend on what channels are available for this sensor.

You can set a different primary channel later by clicking below a channel gauge on the sensor's Overview tab.

Graph Type

Define how this sensor shows different channels:

Show channels independently (default): Show a graph for each channel.
Stack channels on top of each other: Stack channels on top of each other to create a multi-channel graph. This generates a graph that visualizes the different components of your total traffic.
You cannot use this option in combination with manual Vertical Axis Scaling (available in the channel settings).

Stack Unit

This setting is only visible if you select Stack channels on top of each other above.

Select a unit from the list. PRTG stacks all channels with this unit on top of each other. By default, you cannot exclude single channels from stacking if they use the selected unit. However, there is an advanced procedure to do so.

Debug Options

Setting	Description
Result Handling	Define what PRTG does with the sensor result: Discard result (default): Do not store the sensor result. Store result: Store the sensor result and the last response in the \Logs\sensors subfolder of the PRTG data directory on the probe system. The file name is Result of Sensor [ID].log. This setting is for debugging purposes. PRTG overwrites this file with each scanning interval. This option is not available when the sensor runs on the hosted probe of a PRTG Hosted Monitor instance. In a cluster, PRTG stores the result in the PRTG data directory of the master node.

Setting

Description

Result Handling

Define what PRTG does with the sensor result:

Discard result (default): Do not store the sensor result.
Store result: Store the sensor result and the last response in the \Logs\sensors subfolder of the PRTG data directory on the probe system. The file name is Result of Sensor [ID].log. This setting is for debugging purposes. PRTG overwrites this file with each scanning interval.

This option is not available when the sensor runs on the hosted probe of a PRTG Hosted Monitor instance.

In a cluster, PRTG stores the result in the PRTG data directory of the master node.

Inherited Settings

By default, all of these settings are inherited from objects that are higher in the hierarchy. We recommend that you change them centrally in the root group settings if necessary. To change a setting for this object only, click under the corresponding setting name to disable the inheritance and to display its options.

For more information, see section Inheritance of Settings.

Channel List

Which channels the sensor actually shows might depend on the target device, the available components, and the sensor setup.

Channel	Description
Chassis Status	The chassis status Up status: OK Warning status: Warning Down status: Critical Unknown status: Offline / Absent
Downtime	In the channel table on the Overview tab, this channel never shows any values. PRTG uses this channel in graphs and reports to show the amount of time in which the sensor was in the Down status.
Drives Status	The drives status Up status: OK Warning status: Warning Down status: Critical Unknown status: Offline / Absent
Fans Status	The fans status Up status: OK Warning status: Warning Down status: Critical Unknown status: Offline / Absent
Memory Status	The memory status Up status: OK Warning status: Warning Down status: Critical Unknown status: Offline / Absent
PCIe Devices Status	The PCIe drives status Up status: OK Warning status: Warning Down status: Critical Unknown status: Offline / Absent
Power Supplies Status	The power supplies status Up status: Off, On, Powering Off, Powering On Unknown status: Unknown
Processor Status	The processor status Up status: OK Warning status: Warning Down status: Critical Unknown status: Offline / Absent
System Power Status	The system power status Up status: OK Warning status: Warning Down status: Critical Unknown status: Offline / Absent
System Status	The system status Up status: OK Warning status: Warning Down status: Critical Unknown status: Offline / Absent This channel is the primary channel by default.
Thermal Status	The thermal status Up status: OK Warning status: Warning Down status: Critical Unknown status: Offline / Absent

KNOWLEDGE BASE

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