Try to using Solarwinds to monitor APC 9630 card

[Anonymous user]

Since there are so many products on the Solarwinds website,   At least , I found 4 kinds of application on the Solarwinds wesite,   Can you please tell me which application do I need choice ?  And the procedures for setting up the monitoring ?

      Network Performance Monitor

      Server & Application Monitor

      Database Performance Analyzer

      Log & Event Manager

My purpose :   Graphical and using trap (better using trap , otherwise using polling) to monitor 9630 Card on my PC (windows 7) ?

[BillP · Accepted solution]

Hello - I think this is likely more a question for SolarWinds, rather than us. I know SolarWinds is an SNMP tool but I don't know which tools or modules you'd need for traps or polling of a device like the AP9630 Network Management Card. I am sure that they could better answer for you. We also don't have any specific instructions on setting up this third party tool.

In a quick look myself, it seems like this is something of interest -> Download a Free Network Device Monitor from SolarWinds - you just basically want whatever tool allows you to monitor SNMP devices and allows you to load a custom SNMP MIB that we provide.

[Anonymous user]

understood,  Thanks !! 

[Anonymous user]

I believe the APC should has such monitoring software.  Am I right ?  Can you recommend one to us ?    My purpose is  Graphical and using SNMP Trap or others  to monitor around 300 piece of UPS's alarm.  Most of them are smart UPS 3000 with TYPE 9630 , 9617 , 9631 Network Card.

[BillP]

Yes, you're correct. Our SNMP monitoring tool for APC or third party devices is called StruxureWare Data Center Expert and we offer different options with it (licenses, features, physical applicance, Virtual Machine version, etc) -> http://www.apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=350

There is a good Data Sheet here if you click on Brochures at the top of my previous link -> Brochures

It leads you to http://www.apcmedia.com/salestools/RMCR-949E5L/RMCR-949E5L_R0_EN.pdf which highlights this tool.

[Anonymous user]

Hi Angela,

Are you using both Solarwinds and StruxureWare?

David -

[BillP]

Hi David,

I am a Schneider employee. I have heard of/seen SolarWinds but I don't regularly use it as I would StruxureWare (though I don't regularly use that all day either).