Monitoring sensors for systems management

A computer program product for monitoring sensors for systems management, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a signal, the computer readable program code comprising:
• computer readable program code configured to:
• establish, by a server, an entity identification for a component of the server, the entity identification comprising an identifier of a component of the server that is monitored by one or more of a plurality of sensors;
• establish, by the server, for the plurality of sensors a single virtual sensor number;
• establish, by the server, for each sensor having the single virtual sensor number a unique instance identification representing the sensor;
• receive, from a system management node, by the server, a request for a sensor reading, the request including the entity identification, the single virtual sensor number, and the unique instance identification;
• based on the entity identification, the single virtual sensor number, and the unique instance identification, retrieve, by the server, a sensor reading;
• and
• transmit to the system management node, by the server, the sensor reading.