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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12 Jun
Mohamed Saleh AdminHighlighted comment
Hi Ben,
Thanks, that helps a lot! We really appreciate the description and the screenshots! -
01 Jun
Mohamed Saleh AdminHi 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?
Thanks! -
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.
