How to Configure the PSU failure alert on a Server

Hello,

We are beginning to test and explore the solution, and we have the following question:

We have a server where one of the power supplies has failed, and we haven’t received any alerts/notifications.

What is the best procedure or the correct configuration to ensure we receive these types of alerts/notifications?

Many thanks for your support.

For server power supply monitoring, IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) is the recommended approach.

Please follow the documentation steps in order to:

  1. Install the freeipmi plugin

  2. Configure IPMI credentials in netdata.conf

Then, restart Netdata.

(The default ipmi_sensor_state alert will automatically trigger when power supply sensors enter warning or critical states)