Sensors

The mode allows you to get detailed information about the state of hardware sensors, such as processor temperature, disk usage, motherboard voltage, and other indicators over a selected period of time.

Attention
Information is displayed in this mode only after data has been received from the resident agent installed on the remote device and hardware sensor polling has been enabled in the agent profile.

The concept

The resident agent service continuously polls hardware sensors, then compresses the collected data into time-stamped packets.

Each packet contains averaged minimum, average, and maximum sensor readings for a specific period of time.

Once a certain number of packets has been collected, they are grouped into a separate file that can be sent by the agent and imported into the main application.

The main difference between the Sensors mode and a regular hardware scan is that the Resident Agent continuously collects sensor data over time, whereas a standard scan displays only the sensor readings available at the moment the scan is performed.

This feature is not intended for real-time hardware monitoring, but it allows you to identify changes in hardware sensor readings that occurred during a specific period. Any deviations from the configured threshold values are highlighted in the Sensors mode reports.

Interface overview

Select a device or group of devices from the network tree and specify the time range for displaying statistics on the dashboard.

Optionally, choose one of the following display modes: Date range, Elapsed time, or All time.
In Date range mode, you can select any two calendar dates, while in Elapsed time mode, you can specify a period of weeks, days, hours, or minutes counted back from the current time.

The top panel contains a report search field, as well as a menu for copying reports or exporting them as text, XLSX, or CSV files.

Reports can be displayed as a summary of the main sensors, as a tree view of all sensors, or as a table.

In Table view, you can group data by the selected time interval .

In the sidebar, select the hardware category for the sensor.

In Tree or Table view, select the sensor type for which the report will be generated.

Files containing hardware sensor data are named as follows:

<networkname>_<MAC>_<TIMESTAMP>.mon.inv

Operation with sensors

After selecting the sensor location and sensor types, the program will build a report based on the specified values.

If you need to configure alerts for any of the sensors, click on theSensor Alerts option in the sidebar. A settings window will open in which you can configure threshold values for all available hardware sensors.

If multiple resident agent profiles have been created, it is possible to select and configure threshold values for each sensor individually.

Item filtering

Both the Sensors Summary and Tree views provide a filter for detected problems. Using the device filtering menu on the toolbar, select the desired filter and TNI will build a report on all devices, display devices with problems or only the detected problems.

If you need to add a sensor to the exclusion list, select the desired hardware sensor and click the optionAdd sensor to exclusions in the context menu. The excluded sensor will not be taken into account when executing and processing alerts, and will not be displayed when the Assistant is enabled. Hidden sensors in reports are displayed in light gray.

To restore an excluded sensor, right-click it and select Remove sensor from exclusion.

If you want to hide excluded sensors completely from the report, go to Options → Reports → Other, and deactivate the corresponding option.

If necessary, you can quickly go to the agent profile editor by right-clicking on the device panel and selecting the appropriate option from the context menu.