Supermicro SuperDoctor® 5
SD5 monitors target nodes hardware's system health or availability in data centers in real-time and provide alerts to administrators.
SuperDoctor® 5

SuperDoctor 5 Key Benefits and Features
- Supports monitoring, control, and management functions.
- Hardware Monitoring: fan speed, temperature, voltage, chassis intrusion, redundant power failure, power consumption, disk health, raid health, and memory health.
- 20 Types of system information: BIOS, Baseboard, Chassis, Computer System, Disk Drives, Memory, Network, Printer, Processor, System Slot, IPMI, Power Supply, Account, Operating System, Process, Service, Share, Time Zone, OEM Strings, and System Cfg Options.
- Provides SNMP extensions for network management system.
- Easy to use Web-based and command line interfaces.
- Notifications sent via email and SNMP traps.
- Easy to customize:
- Pluggable hardware and software monitoring plug-ins.
- Compatible with Nagios plug-ins.
- Supports Windows and Linux platforms.
SuperDoctor 5 Features
SuperDoctor® 5 | Supermicro® Server Manager | |
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Management Relationship | One-to-One | One-to-Many |
Management Interface | ||
Internationalization Support | Y (Simplified/Traditional Chinese, English) | Y (Simplified/Traditional Chinese, English) |
Command Line Interface (CLI) | Y | Y |
Web-based Interface | Y (SuperDoctor 5 Web) | Y |
SNMP Support | Y (SuperDoctor 5 SNMP Extension) | Y |
Monitoring * Nagios Compatible Plug-ins |
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Host Monitoring: Agent Managed / Agent-less / IPMI | Y | |
MB Built-in Hardware Health Monitoring: Fan Speed / Temperature / Voltage |
Y | Y |
Memory Health Monitoring | Y | Y |
Storage Health Monitoring | Y | Y |
System Information Monitoring | Y | Y |
Service Monitoring: FTP / HTTP / SMTP | Y | Y |
Execute a Custom Monitoring Script or Program | Y | Y |
Remote Control and Management | ||
In-band Power Control (Graceful Power Off /Reboot) | Y | Y |
In-band YNC (Graphical Mode) | Y | |
Reset Chassis Intrusion | Y | Y |
Remote Software Update | Y | Y (Update SuperDoctor 5) |
Out-of-band (OOB) IPMI Power Control | Y | |
Out-of-band (OOB) IPMI Integration | Y (IPMI KVM, IPMI Web) | |
Wake-on-LAN (WOL) | Y | |
Update BIOS | Y | Y |
Update BMC firmware | Y | |
Export BIOS / BMC / DMI Configuration | Y | |
Change BIOS / BMC / DMI Configuration | Y | |
Getting / Clearing Event Log | Y | |
Check System Utilization | Y | |
Mount / Unmount ISO Image from SAMBA / HTTP | Y | |
REST APIs | Y | |
Log and Report | ||
System Information Monitoring | Y (CSV format) | |
Health Information Log | Y (CSV format) | |
Event Log | Y (CSV format) | |
SSM Server Log | Y (HTML format) | |
Availability Report | Y (HTML format; SSM Server / Host / Service) | |
Status Change Report | Y (HTML format; Host / Service) | |
Event Alert Notification | ||
Email SMTP | Y | Y |
Log File | Y | Y |
SNMP Trap | Y | Y |
Other | ||
Database (DB) Support | Microsoft SQL (v2008 and above), and PostgreSQL (v9.1.13 and above) |