PRTG Manual: IPMI System Health Sensor
The IPMI System Health sensor monitors the status of a system via the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI).
For a detailed list and descriptions of the channels that this sensor can show, see section Channel List.
- Dutch: IPMI System Health
- French: IPMI état du système
- German: IPMI Systemzustand
- Japanese: IPMI システム正常性
- Portuguese: Funcionamento do sistema IPMI
- Russian: Работоспособность системы IPMI
- Simplified Chinese: IPMI 健康状况
- Spanish: Salud de sistema IPMI
- This sensor requires .NET 4.7.2 or later from Microsoft on the probe system.
- This sensor requires that you explicitly specify the credentials of the IPMI in the sensor settings.
- This sensor only supports IPMI v1.0. If the target system uses IPMI v2.0, try the Redfish System Health sensor.
- This sensor supports IPv6.
- This sensor has a medium performance impact.
- This sensor uses lookups to determine the status values of one or more channels.
- This sensor has predefined limits for several metrics.
You cannot add this sensor to the hosted probe of a PRTG Hosted Monitor instance. If you want to use this sensor, add it to a remote probe device.
Requirement |
Description |
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This sensor requires .NET 4.7.2 or later to be installed on the probe system (on every cluster node, if on a cluster probe).
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Setting |
Description |
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Sensor Name |
Enter a name to identify the sensor. By default, PRTG shows this name in the device tree, as well as in alarms, logs, notifications, reports, maps, libraries, and tickets.
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Parent Tags |
The tags that the sensor inherits from its parent device, parent group, and parent probe.
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Tags |
Enter one or more tags. Confirm each tag with the Spacebar key, a comma, or the Enter key. You can use tags to group objects and use tag-filtered views later on. Tags are not case-sensitive. Tags are automatically inherited.
The sensor has the following default tags that are automatically predefined in the sensor's settings when you add the sensor:
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Priority |
Select a priority for the sensor. This setting determines the position of the sensor in lists. The highest priority is at the top of a list. Choose from the lowest priority ( |
Setting |
Description |
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User Name |
Enter the user name for the IPMI. |
Password |
Enter the password for the IPMI.
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Setting |
Description |
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Group |
The metric that this sensor monitors. |
Result Handling |
Define what PRTG does with the log file results:
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Setting |
Description |
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Primary Channel |
Select a channel from the list to define it as the primary channel. In the device tree, the last value of the primary channel is always displayed below the sensor's name. The available options depend on what channels are available for this sensor.
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Graph Type |
Define how different channels are shown for this sensor:
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Stack Unit |
This setting is only visible if you enable Stack channels on top of each other as Graph Type. Select a unit from the list. All channels with this unit are stacked 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. |
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.
For more information, see section Root Group Settings, section Scanning Interval.
Schedules, Dependencies, and Maintenance Window
You cannot interrupt the inheritance for schedules, dependencies, and maintenance windows. The corresponding settings from the parent objects are always active. However, you can define additional schedules, dependencies, and maintenance windows. They are active at the same time as the parent objects' settings.
For more information, see section Root Group Settings, section Schedules, Dependencies, and Maintenance Window.
For more information, see section Root Group Settings, section Access Rights.
Which channel units are available depends on the sensor type and the available parameters. If no configurable channels are available, this field shows No configurable channels.
For more information, see section Root Group Settings, section Channel Unit Configuration.
Which channels the sensor actually shows might depend on the target device, the available components, and the sensor setup.
Channel |
Description |
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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 |
[Value] |
The value status, for example
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