title: Dell PowerEdge Server: State of Network Devices
agents: snmp
catalog: hw/server/dell
license: GPL
distribution: check_mk
description:
 This check monitors the state of the network devices of Dell PowerEdge Servers.
 The state is extracted from the device via SNMP from the parameters
 {networkDeviceStatus} and {networkDeviceConnectionStatus}.

 The state of the check is {OK} when the device returns a state of {OK}.
 The state of the cehck is {WARN} when the device returns a state of {other},
 {unknown} or {nonCritical}. The state of the check is {CRIT} otherwise.

 The state also returns {OK} when the connections status is {CONNECTED}.
 It returns {CRIT} otherwise und {WARN} if the connection status is {UNKNOWN}

 No limits are set in the check.

 In addition to the state the following information is retrieved and displayed in
 the check output: name of the product, current MAC address
 ,
 description of the device and manufacturer,

item:
 The name of the fqdd variable for the device

inventory:
 All network devices of the device are detected


