Appendix - Chassis Health Monitoring

Overview

Chassis Health Monitoring enables monitoring hardware alerts via rsyslog and generating external events in UFM. The alerts are written to /var/log/syslog.

Monitoring hardware health status is essential for failure prevention and maintenance. The Chassis Health Monitoring service is run as a Docker container.

Configuration

1. Generate UFM token authentication. Run: 

   POST https://<UFM server IP>/ufmRest/app/tokens
   

2. Set the UFM server hostname and authentication token in /opt/ufm/chassis_health/chassis_health.conf: 

   [connection]
   # UFM server hostname. In case of HA, it should be the VIP
   hostname =
   
   [authentication]
   # UFM server user credentials
   token =
   

3. Restart the Chassis Health Monitoring service for changes to take effect. Run: 

   systemctl restart ufm-chassis-health.service
   

Once the service runs, the status can be viewed via systemctl (systemctl status ufm-chassis-health.service) and /var/log/chassis_health_fluentd_console.log file.

Last updated: March 18, 2025