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User guide to setting up Áú»¢¶Ä²© monitoring of the Morningstar products
Áú»¢¶Ä²© provides a powerful automated solution for monitoring the state of Morningstar products. For example, if the device battery voltage is too low or a battery temperature drops below a given threshold, the system will generate an alert and send it to your preferred notification channel (e-mail/phone/Jira/Slack/or many others). The full list of alerts depends on the device - see the individual template documentation for details. This guide explains how to get Áú»¢¶Ä²© and configure the software for monitoring.
Pre-requisites and installation
Áú»¢¶Ä²© is an open-source product that can be installed on a majority of Unix-like distributions at no cost - see full list of supported distributions. Alternatively, Áú»¢¶Ä²© is available on certain cloud services.
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Install Áú»¢¶Ä²© following instructions from the downloads page for your preferred installation method.
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Download monitoring templates suitable for your Morningstar products to the computer.
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Supported Morningstar products
Product | Readme | Template |
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Prostar MPPT | ||
Prostar PWM | ||
Sunsaver MPPT | ||
Suresine | ||
Tristar MPPT 600V | ||
Tristar MPPT | ||
Tristar PWM |
Áú»¢¶Ä²© set up
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Log in to Áú»¢¶Ä²©.
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Using a sidebar menu at the left, navigate to the Configuration -> Templates section. Import the downloaded template into Áú»¢¶Ä²© by following these steps:
- Press the Import button in the top right corner
- Select the XML file of the required template on your machine
- Press Import
- Now you need to teach Áú»¢¶Ä²© how to connect to the device. To do so, first create a host to represent your Morningstar device:
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Using a sidebar menu at the left, navigate to the Configuration -> Hosts section
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Press?the Create host?button in the top right corner
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In the Host configuration window fill in the required fields:
- Host name - enter any unique name
- Groups - select an existing host group or enter the name of a new group to be created
- Interfaces - press Add and select SNMP from the drop-down list that appears.
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Add an SNMP interface for the host:
- Enter the IP address/DNS?name and port number
- Select the?SNMP v2?from the dropdown
- In the SNMP community field enter 'public'
- Turn off the?Use bulk requests?checkbox because devices do not work correctly in this mode
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Open the Templates tab. In the Link new templates field, start typing Morningstar, then select the imported template from the list.
- Repeat step 3 for each Morningstar device you want to monitor.
By now, Áú»¢¶Ä²© is configured to generate alerts if something goes wrong with the device. The alerts will be displayed in the Áú»¢¶Ä²© dashboard. If you would like to receive notifications about problems by e-mail, phone, or some other channel, follow instructions for configuring notifications upon events provided in Áú»¢¶Ä²© documentation.