<%NUMBERING1%>.<%NUMBERING2%>.<%NUMBERING3%> PRTG Manual: SNMP HPE ProLiant Network Interface Sensor

HPE system management tools

For Gen10 servers: This sensor requires HPE Agentless Management and the HPE Agentless Management Service on the target system.

For Gen10 servers: Use the HPE Integrated Lights Out (iLO) interface as the parent device.

For Gen9 servers or earlier: This sensor requires HPE Insight Management Agents and HPE Insight Management WBEM Providers on the target system.

For Gen9 servers or earlier, this sensor requires a specific HPE system management tool to be installed on the target system to report data via SNMP: HPE Insight Management Agents. To receive SNMP data from redundant array of independent disks (RAID) controllers, the sensor also requires HPE Insight Management Agents. For Gen10 servers, this sensor no longer requires HPE system management tools. Instead, the sensor requires the HPE Agentless Management Service to be installed on the target system.

For more information and download links, see the Knowledge Base: Monitor HP ProLiant via SNMP?

For Gen9 servers or earlier, some of the HPE object identifiers (OID) that this sensor uses are only accessible via the iLO interface. If this sensor throws an error that it cannot find "such device types", create a device that points to the address of the HPE iLO interface (if available) and add the sensor to this device. We recommend that you use the Agentless Management feature with configured SNMP. You can set this up in the iLO configuration interface under Administration | Management | SNMP Settings. For Gen10 servers, use the HPE iLO interface as parent device for this sensor.

iLO versions

This sensor supports iLO as of iLO 3. We recommend that you use at least iLO 4.

IPv6

This sensor supports IPv6.

Performance impact

This sensor has a low performance impact.

Sensor creation

During sensor creation, the status of each available network interface is shown. If this status is Link Failure, it is still possible to add a sensor for the respective interface. Though, most likely the sensor for this interface does not work correctly. The error message in this case is No Such Name (SNMP error # 2).

Network Interfaces

The name of the network interface that this sensor monitors.

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.

Alignment Errors

The number of alignment errors

Bad Frames Received

The number of bad frames received

Bad Frames Transmitted

The number of bad frames transmitted

Carrier Sense Errors

The number of carrier sense errors

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

Excessive Collisions

The number of excessive collisions

FCS Errors

The number of FCS errors

Frames Too Long

The number of frames that are too long

Good Frames Received

The number of good frames received

Good Frames Transmitted

The number of good frames transmitted

Late Collisions

The number of late collisions

Total

The total traffic

Traffic In

The incoming traffic

This channel is the primary channel by default.

Traffic Out

The outgoing traffic