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Looking to monitor APC PDUs
Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 11:24 am
by snapon_admin
Looking to see if anyone has any suggestions on how to monitor some APC PDUs we have in our environtment. I've tried a couple of the APC plugins on the exchange and none of them seem to work with our PDUs. We're using APC model AP4452 and we've tried check_apc.pl, check_apc_pdu.pl, and check_apc_pdu_load.sh with no luck. I've tried an SNMP walk on the unit, but a lot of that info isn't very clear on what I'm looking at so it's not ideal. If anyone else has been monitoring APC PDUs with success I'd love an assist on whatever you're using.
Re: Looking to monitor APC PDUs
Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 4:01 pm
by snapon_admin
I should update. This is actually an APC ATS unit that we're monitoring. Most of the OIDs needed for this fall under the 'ats' category, so it'd be different than a standard UPS/PDU.
Re: Looking to monitor APC PDUs
Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 11:19 am
by ssax
Re: Looking to monitor APC PDUs
Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 3:09 pm
by snapon_admin
I did try those and unfortunately they don't really show what we're looking for. I was able to do an SNMP walk though and found a good amount of OIDs for what we want to see so I modified another APC plugin we got from the exchange to accept commands for the ATS OIDs. Seems to be working well enough for now.
Re: Looking to monitor APC PDUs
Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 10:10 am
by ssax
Okay, that's pretty much the only other method if a plugin doesn't exist for it. To get more info on what OIDs you should be monitoring you can reach out to the device vendor and they should be able to point you in the right direction.
You could also write your own plugin if you're able:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... inapi.html
https://nagios-plugins.org/doc/guidelines.html