PRTG Manual: SNMP HPE ProLiant Network Interface Sensor

The SNMP HPE ProLiant Network Interface sensor monitors a network interface in an HPE server via the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).

SNMP HPE ProLiant Network Interface Sensor

For a detailed list and descriptions of the channels that this sensor can show, see section Channel List.

Sensor in Other Languages

Dutch: SNMP HPE ProLiant Netwerkinterface
French: HPE ProLiant interface réseau (SNMP)
German: SNMP HPE ProLiant Netzwerkschnittstelle
Japanese: SNMP HPE ProLiant ネットワークインターフェース
Portuguese: Interface de rede HPE ProLiant (SNMP)
Russian: Сетевой интерфейс HPE ProLiant по SNMP
Simplified Chinese: SNMP HPE ProLiant 网络接口
Spanish: Interfaz de red HPE ProLiant (SNMP)

Remarks

Consider the following remarks and requirements for this sensor:

Remark	Description
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).

Basic Sensor Settings

The sensor has the following default tags that are automatically predefined in the sensor's settings when you add the sensor:

hpe
snmphpe
snmphpenetworkinterfacesensor

For more information about basic sensor settings, see section Sensor Settings.

HPE ProLiant Network Interface Settings

Setting	Description
Network Interfaces	The name of the network interface that this sensor monitors.

Sensor Display

Setting	Description
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.

Setting

Description

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.

Inherited Settings

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.

Channel List

Which channels the sensor actually shows might depend on the target device, the available components, and the sensor setup.

Channel	Description
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