eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by PROCURFanTest

The HP Procurve switch is provided with two hot-swappable fan trays. Each fan tray contains multiple number of fans to maintain the temperature of the switch within a permissible range. If the fan suddenly stops running, then the temperature of the core components of the target switch will significantly increase, causing serious damage to the core components. This is why, its good practice to keep track of the fan status using the Fan Statistics test.

For each fan available on the switch, this test reports the current status and the count of failure events, if any.

Outputs of the test : One set of results for each fan in the fan trays of the HP Procurve switch being monitored.

Descriptor of the test : Fan

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Fan_status Indicates the current status of this fan.   The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalents are mentioned in the table below:

Measure Value Numeric Value
Failed 0
Removed 1
Off 2
Under speed 3
Over speed 4
OK 5
Max speed 6

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the current status of each fan. The graph of this measure however, represents the status of the fan using the numeric equivalents only - 0 to 6.
Failure_count Indicates the number of times this fan failed during the last measurement period. Number The value of this measure should be Zero.