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Check Point VSX Administration Guide NGX R67 | 161
Chapter 10
Hardware Health Monitoring
SecurePlatform enables a number of hardware health monitoring capabilities for Check Point appliances
and for open servers.
In This Chapter
Introduction to Hardware Health Monitoring 161
RAID Monitoring with SNMP 162
Sensors Monitoring with SNMP on VSX-1 Appliances 163
Introduction to Hardware Health Monitoring
SecurePlatform features the following Hardware Health Monitoring capabilities:
 RAID health: Monitor the health of the disks in the RAID array, and be notified of the states of the
volumes and disks. The information is available via SNMP.
 Sensors: Monitor fan speed, motherboard voltages and temperatures on the hardware. The information
is available via SNMP and, for Check Point appliances.
The following matrix summarizes the supported health monitoring features:
1. Hardware sensors monitoring is supported on all VSX-1 models.
2. Hardware sensors monitoring for open servers is supported on certified servers with an Intelligent
Platform Management Interface (IPMI) card installed. The IPMI specification defines a set of common
interfaces to a computer system, which system administrators can use to monitor system health.
3. RAID Monitoring with SNMP is supported on VSX-1 servers with a RAID card installed (VSX-1 9070
and VSX-1 11070).
4. RAID Monitoring with SNMP on HP servers is supported with a P400 RAID controller.
Note - Hardware Monitoring is enabled by default on all VSX-1
appliances and disabled by default on all Open Server platforms.
To enable Hardware Monitoring on an Open server, select the
Hardware Monitoring option in Sysconfig.