BMS Hardware Monitoring Plug-in

Agent 2.5.6.1 and later enhanced versions integrate the BMS hardware monitoring plug-in. The plug-in checks hardware health in real time, identifies potential issues early, and offers full monitoring for BMS hardware faults.

If the BMS does not have the hardware monitoring plug-in, Huawei Cloud cannot detect the hardware fault in a timely manner, which may affect service availability. In addition, you need to contact technical support to rectify the fault.

After the hardware monitoring plug-in is installed, you will be notified of hardware fault risks in the form of events. You need to authorize Huawei Cloud to repair or replace the risky hardware in a timely manner.

• The monitoring plug-in only collects some necessary OS metrics to identify the hardware fault risk. For details, see BMS Hardware Metrics.
• Only some Linux OSs are supported.
• BMSs of all specifications support the hardware monitoring plug-in.
• If your BMS uses a private image as the OS, ensure that the image has the following software installed: dmidecode, lscpu, dmesg, lspci, modinfo, ifconfig, ethtool, hinicadm, smartctl, lsscsi, and uname.