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Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL v1.5.00
SENTRY SOFTWARE
How does it work?
Hardware Sentry is a KM that enables PATROL to monitor computer hardware (disk status, temperatures,
CPU, power supplies etc.).
It gathers hardware information from different sources such as manufacturer-specific agents, standard
management technologies, SNMP, WBEM, etc., and displays this information within the PATROL
framework.
In order to work properly, Hardware Sentry needs certain hardware information sources to be available.
Depending on the platform, it relies on manufacturer-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 poll data on the hardware health of the computer.
Hardware Sentry collects such data from each server and reports in your PATROL console.
The image below represents how Hardware Sentry monitors the hardware of a Fujitsu-Siemens® computer:
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The Siemens® ServerView® agent shows the temperatures, the fans, the power supplies and the
voltages of the Siemens computer through SNMP
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The Mylex® GAM Server shows the status of the physical and logical disks of the Mylex® RAID
Controller through SNMP
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The Windows WMI provider shows the status of the physical disks attached to the standard SCSI
controller through WBEM
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Hardware Sentry detects and automatically connects to all three information sources (Siemens
ServerView, Mylex GAM Server and Windows WMI provider) and gathers only useful hardware
information from them and reports it within the PATROL framework