Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent potential fan failures and overheating issues.
With Paessler PRTG as your fan monitoring tool, you can avoid fluctuations in voltage and overheating as it helps you control the speed and temperature of your fans. Plus, PRTG is an all-in-one network monitoring software that integrates monitoring of your fan with monitoring your entire IT infrastructure.
Properly working fans are crucial to your IT system’s reliability. Because if data cannot be retrieved from overheated servers and other network devices, this will certainly hamper business processes and productivity. PRTG helps you avoid costly downtime with easy fan health monitoring.
You’ll save money with PRTG since you will not have to replace equipment as frequently. PRTG helps your hardware run smoothly by ensuring its surroundings are well-ventilated and free of excessive heat, since systems last longer when they stay cool.
PRTG helps you save on energy costs by ensuring your IT systems are energy-efficient. It keeps a 24/7 eye on temperature, power distribution units, and even air conditioners in your data centers and server rooms to help prevent systems from overheating.
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking the availability, health, and performance of your fans. Show fan rotation per minute (RPM), the overall fan status, the number of failed fans, airflow, and other key metrics in real time. Visualize monitoring data in clear graphs and dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the overview you need to troubleshoot overheating fans and other fan failures.
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Custom PRTG dashboard for keeping an eye on the entire IT infrastructure
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PRTG fan monitoring software includes preconfigured sensors to monitor temperature, voltage, and data of built-in fans. Plus, it’s also an IT monitoring tool that keeps an eye on network traffic, system status, bandwidth, and more. This makes PRTG better at ensuring your hardware is being sufficiently cooled and your Microsoft Windows or Linux or mac OS systems operate at peak performance.
You don’t need to juggle multiple monitoring tools, as PRTG comes with preconfigured sensors that monitor the status and performance of all system fans. Plus, our user-friendly, easy-to-read dashboards display all the data from your IT system on a single pane of glass. You can even create your own dashboards that exactly suit your requirements.
Our software is designed with general system status and hardware monitoring sensors that use protocols like SNMP, WMI, IPMI, Redfish, MQTT, or Modbus, as well as sensors for specific manufacturers (NetApp, HPE, Lenovo, Dell, Cisco, Synology, Fujitsu, etc.), to collect and display all parameters you can think of – well, mostly.
PRTG comes with more than 250 native sensor types for monitoring your entire on-premises, cloud, and hybrid cloud environment out of the box. Check out some examples below!
The SNMP Fujitsu System Health v2 sensor monitors the status of a Fujitsu PRIMERGY server via the integrated Remote Management Controller (iRMC) The sensor might also work on other Fujitsu devices that have an iRMC available like PRIMEQUEST servers, some storage systems of the ETERNUS product line, and CELSIUS workstations in racks. It can show the following:
The SNMP HPE ProLiant System Health sensor monitors the system health of an HPE ProLiant server. It can show the following:
• Overall, CPU fan, system fan, thermal, and disk controller status
The SNMP LenovoEMC System Health sensor monitors the system health of a LenovoEMC network-attached storage (NAS). It can show the following:
The SNMP NetApp Enclosure sensor monitors the power supply and cooling of an enclosure that is part of a NetApp storage system. It can show the following:
See the PRTG Manual for a list of all available sensor types.
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent potential fan failures and overheating issues.
PRTG is set up in a matter of minutes and can be used on a wide variety of mobile devices.
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The more heat that is generated by an IT system, the faster a fan must spin to dissipate the heat. Another observation: Fans get louder the faster they spin. A fan is powered by electricity. In a PC, the power supply is 12 volts. The power supply must be correct for the following reason: if the voltage drops, the fan will be less effective. When this happens, you can no longer ensure your laptop, server, or enclosure is being cooled or ventilated as needed. Consequently, the temperature of hardware components (motherboard, hard drives/HDD, SSDs, graphic cards, etc.) by vendors like Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and others can increase, and with it a risk of malfunctions and failures.
Like ventilators, fans swirl and circulate air. Fans perform three main tasks: cool, ventilate, and remove air from IT components. As a rule, all IT hardware comes equipped with a fan. For example, laptops and PCs have fans installed in their cases to keep CPU temperature and the temperature of their graphic and video card low. Servers and server racks also need fans to function properly and not overheat.
A fan monitor is a system or device used to track the performance and status of cooling fans, typically in electronic equipment, server rooms, data centers, or industrial applications. Cooling fans are critical for maintaining optimal operating temperature ranges for equipment, and a fan monitor helps ensure they function correctly. Key aspects include:
Why do IT systems, data storage devices, and server racks need to be ventilated in the first place? IT systems and servers always generate heat. However, when internal pieces become overheated, the performance of these systems and servers can drop considerably. In the worst case scenario, devices can crash or become damaged. For this reason, fans must be used to dissipate heat from servers, storage systems, computers, control units, switches, and other hardware components.
In PRTG, “sensors” are the basic monitoring elements. One sensor usually monitors one measured value in your network, for example the traffic of a switch port, the CPU load of a server, or the free space on a disk drive. On average, you need about 5-10 sensors per device or one sensor per switch port.
Paessler conducted trials in over 600 IT departments worldwide to tune its network monitoring software closer to the needs of sysadmins. The result of the survey: over 95% of the participants would recommend PRTG – or already have.
Paessler PRTG is used by companies of all sizes. Sysadmins love PRTG because it makes their job a whole lot easier.
Bandwidth, servers, virtual environments, websites, VoIP services – PRTG keeps an eye on your entire network.
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