Zabbix Network Monitoring - Second Edition

Monitoring discrete sensors

The sensor list shows some sensors where the value is quite clear: temperatures, fan RPMs, and so on. Some of these can be a bit more tricky, though. For example, your sensor listing could have a sensor called Power Unit Stat or similar. These are discrete sensors. One might hopefully think that they could return 0 for an OK state and 1 for Failure, but they're usually more complicated. For example, the power unit sensor can actually return information about eight different states in one retrieved value. Let's try to monitor it and see what value we can get in Zabbix for such a system. Navigate to Configuration | Hosts, click on Items next to IPMI host, and click on Create item. Fill in the following:

• Name: Enter Power ...