Eaton
Introduction
The Eaton probe uses the snmp protocol to perform its queries.
Features
The Eaton probe consist of a number of UPS specific checks:
Battery status
Alarms
Input, Bypass & Output measurement
Environmental monitoring, temperature and humidity
Deployment
The Eaton probe can easily be deployed using our appliance manager.
Credentials
As the Eaton probe uses SNMP the SNMP section in our credentials documentation is applicable for this probe.
The probe configuration uses the eaton section as default in the InfraSonar credentials file.
Conditions
The label Eaton UPS can be used to configure our default condition set.
Eaton UPS input source
A noteworthy condition is the Eaton UPS input source condition as this condition is triggered when the UPS lost it's main power.
An interesting use case for this condition is to setup a rule to send a voice call to notify on-call personal when main power is lost.
Good to known
As the UPS occasionally switches to battery power for a couple of seconds as part of its maintenance routine this condition potential get's triggered while all is well. To avoid sending incorrect notification we wait one cycle before sending out an alert.
As the check interval for this check is 1 minute sending out a notification for this event can potentially take a maximum off 2 minutes.
Operational
SNMP version
We noted we had to use SNMP version 1 in most scenario's we deployed this probe.