Hardware Sentry - Site

Prerequisites

• Hardware Sentry installed and configured. See Quick Start Guide.
• a Prometheus server configured to expose the hardware metrics collected.
• the Hardware Sentry - Main and Hardware Sentry - Host dashboards.

Note: Hardware Sentry is free-to-use for Prometheus and Grafana users. Support plans are available.

Why using Hardware Sentry and its Grafana dashboards?

Hardware Sentry:

• supports over 100 platforms from the oldest to the more recent ones: Cisco, Dell EMC, IBM, Hitachi, HP, NetApp, Pure, etc. See full list.
• is a 100% software solution for energy usage monitoring (NO PDUs required).

Key Features

• Hardware Monitoring: Detect and even predict failures in processors, memory modules, disks, network cards, controllers, power supplies, fans, temperature sensors, etc
• IT Energy Usage: Assess the power consumption of all monitored systems, even those which are not equipped with power sensors
• Carbon Emissions: Accurately determine the carbon emissions of your data centers and observe their evolution over time to ensure you are on track with your commitments to sustainability
• Data center temperature optimization: Accurately determine the maximum acceptable temperature of your server rooms and estimate the potential savings resulting from increasing the temperature by a few degrees.

Use Cases

• Detect all hardware failures
• Report the energy usage and carbon emissions of your data center and its monitored hosts
• Spot the top consumer sites
• Optimize the ambient temperature of the server room
• Estimate potential savings per site

Dashboard Metrics

See full list of metrics.