Environment monitor

The Environment monitor is capable of monitoring hardware for environmental monitoring. Various hardware from many different manufacturers are supported, including AKCP, IT Watchdogs, AVTECH, Sensatronics and others.

• System type: All
• Category: Environment

Note: Only monitor specific settings are documented here. See Standard monitor settings.

Monitor configuration

When creating a new Environment monitor, the user first has to select the manufacturer and model of the device. Once the model has been selected, Network Monitor automatically fetches the device configuration.

Monitor specific properties

• Temperature unit - The desired temperature unit for specifying the thresholds. This also affects the visual presentation of real time charts for this monitor.
• Polling method - This setting chooses the polling method for querying data from the device. Normally, it does not need to be changed.
• Port - Port number for polling data from the device. Normally this is automatically set by Network Monitor.

After these generic settings, the settings for each individual sensor on the device can be specified. They are logically organized into groups corresponding to how the device itself has been configured earlier. Each sensor must be enabled, by checking the enabled box for each sensor. Thresholds are not required and can be left empty if the sensor is only used to collect statistics.