eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by HwTemperatureTest

This test monitors the thermal status of the hardware of a server. This test can work only on servers with IBM Director or Dell OpenManage or HP/Compaq Insight agent, or an AIX server. The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Current_temperature Indicates the current reading of the temperature sensor Degree The descriptor for this test indicates the temperature sensor name in the case of Dell servers. For Compaq servers, the descriptor is of the form "chassis number.temperature sensor".
Temperature_status Indicates whether the temperature sensor is showing abnormality Number A value of 1 indicates normalcy. A value of 2 indicates a minor problem, a value of 3 indicates a major problem, and a value of 4 indicates a critical problem.