topic Re: Syslog alert for power supply failure in General Topics

Syslog alert for power supply failure

Vivek_Singh1 — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:17:07 GMT

I have been trying to find the file or parameter responsible for monitoring of power supply status on Check Point firewalls.

In F5 products, it can be modifies using /etc/alertd/alert.conf file, However, I cannot find any option for Check Point.

Purpose is generate syslog message and not to use cp_monitor or snmp monitoring for power supply failure.

Re: Syslog alert for power supply failure

G_W_Albrecht — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 11:54:46 GMT

Afaik such a feature is based on hardware sensor information, e.g. see sk111273 for using SNMP where Smart-1 25, 50 and 150 hardware does not support sensors for power supply and RAID failure. So please specify where you need that!

Re: Syslog alert for power supply failure

Danny — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 12:05:55 GMT

You could use GAiA's job scheduler to monitor it via a simple One-Liner like this:

clish -c 'show sysenv all' | grep Power | awk '{print $3": "$4}' | sed 's/#//' | tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's/Up /Up /'

and have it sending a message to syslog if the status is not Up.

Re: Syslog alert for power supply failure

HeikoAnkenbrand — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 17:43:38 GMT

Nice One-Liner.

Re: Syslog alert for power supply failure

JozkoMrkvicka — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 10:04:23 GMT

More elegant one-Liner:

if cpstat os -f power_supply | grep -qi "down"; then logger -s -p kern.crit -t kernel 'PSU is down !!! Please replace faulty PSU.'; fi

This command will check if output of "cpstat os -f power_supply" contains string "down" (not case sensitive) and in case yes, issue command logger with facility kern and priority crit to print desired text in /var/log/messages in order to be caught by any Syslog server as critical message (or check it some other way within logs).

Just schedule this one line using cron job every day and you have monitoring of PSU in place 🙂

Please note that there are some exceptions where PSU is considered as down, but not really:

sk107199 - Power Supply sensors are shown as "Up" or "Down" when using one Power Supply and one Power Supply Filler on 4800 / 12200 / 12400 / 12600 appliance

Another solution is to use snmpwalk to get status of PSUs, or create trap for it:

OID Name: powerSupplyStatus

OID Number: 1.3.6.1.4.1.2620.1.6.7.9.1.1.2

Re: Syslog alert for power supply failure

Danny — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:54:04 GMT

Relying on ipmitool would be more reliable to make sure to get power_supply data even from open servers. Instead of snmpwalk better use stattest which also works with more secure SNMP versions, such as SNMPv3.

Re: Syslog alert for power supply failure

JozkoMrkvicka — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 20:29:10 GMT

Interesting "stattest" command which I was not aware about. But since it still uses SNMP OIDs, which is mandatory to be configured, not sure if there can be different result from snmpwalk vs. stattest.