Lower threshold for PoE consumption on switches
There's a check for PoE consumption on switches, but it only has WARN and CRITICAL *upper* limits.
We have had several occurences where the PoE part of a switch died and the rest of the switch kept working perfectly fine.
PoE consumption was still reported by the switch but went to 0 - for which there's no WARN or CRITICAL.
So it would be useful to have threshold settings / rules for the PoE consumption check to warn me when it's at a too low of a realistic level.
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01 Jun
Mohamed Saleh AdminHighlighted comment
Hi Ben,
Thank you for posting on our Ideas Portal!
Could you please specify the exact name of the rule set for which this idea extends?
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02 Jun
BenOn inventory of our Zyxel switches the service "POE1 consumption" is found automatically.
In this service the Warning & Critical thresholds are set automatically at 90% & 95%, which is fine.
For one, it would be nice to be able to adjust those thresholds, but I can't as there isn't the "adjust parameters for this service" button available.
But my primary idea is to have (ideally configurable) thresholds for the lower minimum limit, so that it goes to a warning state, when the PoE consumption goes below x% or to 0. Which then tells me there's a problem with the PoE part of the switch, because not all PoE phones vanish by accident.
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12 Jun
Mohamed Saleh AdminHi Ben,
Thanks, that helps a lot! We really appreciate the description and the screenshots!
