Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Benjamin Franz
Bowie Bailey wrote: Does anyone know of a cheap temperature sensor that will work with Linux? I don't need a fancy monitoring appliance, I just want a simple sensor that I can connect to one of my monitoring servers to let me know if the server room is getting hot There is a good chance that

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Dominik Zyla
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:00:21AM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: Does anyone know of a cheap temperature sensor that will work with Linux? I don't need a fancy monitoring appliance, I just want a simple sensor that I can connect to one of my monitoring servers to let me know if the server room

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Dominik Zyla
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:13:56AM -0800, Benjamin Franz wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Does anyone know of a cheap temperature sensor that will work with Linux? I don't need a fancy monitoring appliance, I just want a simple sensor that I can connect to one of my monitoring servers to let me

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Dominik Zyla gavro...@gavroche.pl wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:00:21AM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: Does anyone know of a cheap temperature sensor that will work with Linux?  I don't need a fancy monitoring appliance, I just want a simple sensor that I can

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Dale Dellutri
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com wrote: Does anyone know of a cheap temperature sensor that will work with Linux? I don't need a fancy monitoring appliance, I just want a simple sensor that I can connect to one of my monitoring servers to let me know if the

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/26 Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com: Does anyone know of a cheap temperature sensor that will work with Linux?  I don't need a fancy monitoring appliance, I just want a simple sensor that I can connect to one of my monitoring servers to let me know if the server room is getting hot.

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Kwan Lowe kwan.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Dominik Zyla gavro...@gavroche.pl wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:00:21AM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: Does anyone know of a cheap temperature sensor that will work with Linux? I

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Michel van Deventer
Hi, On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 17:18 +0100, Dominik Zyla wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:13:56AM -0800, Benjamin Franz wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Does anyone know of a cheap temperature sensor that will work with Linux? I don't need a fancy monitoring appliance, I just want a simple

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread nate
Bowie Bailey wrote: Does anyone know of a cheap temperature sensor that will work with Linux? I don't need a fancy monitoring appliance, I just want a simple sensor that I can connect to one of my monitoring servers to let me know if the server room is getting hot. I don't know what your

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Eero Volotinen
You can make it really cheap if you have some soldering skills ;) what is solution for people without soldering skills? ;) -- Eero ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Bowie Bailey
Benjamin Franz wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Does anyone know of a cheap temperature sensor that will work with Linux? I don't need a fancy monitoring appliance, I just want a simple sensor that I can connect to one of my monitoring servers to let me know if the server room is getting hot

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Bowie Bailey
Dale Dellutri wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com mailto:bowie_bai...@buc.com wrote: Does anyone know of a cheap temperature sensor that will work with Linux? I don't need a fancy monitoring appliance, I just want a simple sensor

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread m . roth
You can make it really cheap if you have some soldering skills ;) what is solution for people without soldering skills? ;) And you call yourself a sysadmin?! g http://xkcd.org/705/ Or, for that matter, http://www.2dkits.com/zencart/ (ObFullInfo: yes, they are friends of mine). mark

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bowie Bailey wrote: Benjamin Franz wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Does anyone know of a cheap temperature sensor that will work with Linux? I don't need a fancy monitoring appliance, I just want a simple sensor that I can connect to one of my monitoring servers to let

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Bowie Bailey
Paul Heinlein wrote: On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bowie Bailey wrote: I'm looking for room temperature, not case temperature. Some hardware provides SNMP-addressable information on the temperature of inbound air, not just case temperature. I realize that inbound temperature is not

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Michel van Deventer
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 18:34 +0200, Eero Volotinen wrote: You can make it really cheap if you have some soldering skills ;) what is solution for people without soldering skills? ;) Learn it or find someone who can OR if all else fails, buy complete products :) Regards,

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Bowie Bailey
Kwan Lowe wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Dominik Zyla gavro...@gavroche.pl wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:00:21AM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: Does anyone know of a cheap temperature sensor that will work with Linux? I don't need a fancy monitoring appliance, I just want

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread John Doe
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:00:21AM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: Does anyone know of a cheap temperature sensor that will work with Linux? I don't need a fancy monitoring appliance, I just want a simple sensor that I can connect to one of my monitoring servers to let me know if the server room

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Benjamin Franz
Bowie Bailey wrote: Benjamin Franz wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Does anyone know of a cheap temperature sensor that will work with Linux? I don't need a fancy monitoring appliance, I just want a simple sensor that I can connect to one of my monitoring servers to let me know if

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/26/2010 10:46 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote: Does anyone know of a cheap temperature sensor that will work with Linux? I don't need a fancy monitoring appliance, I just want a simple sensor that I can connect to one of my monitoring servers to let me know if the server room is getting hot

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread John R Pierce
Dominik Zyla wrote: But it'll not give information about temperature in server room. actually, it sorta can. find the lowest reading sensor on the system, probably one on the mainboard...use a manual thermometer to read the intake air temp and calculate the delta. i think you'll

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Dominik Zyla
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:57:52AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: Dominik Zyla wrote: But it'll not give information about temperature in server room. actually, it sorta can. find the lowest reading sensor on the system, probably one on the mainboard...use a manual thermometer to

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/26/2010 12:11 PM, Dominik Zyla wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:57:52AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: Dominik Zyla wrote: But it'll not give information about temperature in server room. actually, it sorta can. find the lowest reading sensor on the system, probably one on the

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Dominik Zyla
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:27:59PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: On 2/26/2010 12:11 PM, Dominik Zyla wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:57:52AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: Dominik Zyla wrote: But it'll not give information about temperature in server room. actually, it sorta can. find

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread m . roth
Dominik wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:27:59PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: On 2/26/2010 12:11 PM, Dominik Zyla wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:57:52AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: Dominik Zyla wrote: But it'll not give information about temperature in server room. actually, it sorta

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Dominik Zyla
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 01:41:00PM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Dominik wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:27:59PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: On 2/26/2010 12:11 PM, Dominik Zyla wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:57:52AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: Dominik Zyla wrote: But it'll not

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread nate
Dominik Zyla wrote: You have right. While you checking sensors from few machines, you can see the trend. Gotta think about changing the way of temperature monitoring here. Myself I wouldn't rely on internal equipment sensors to try to extrapolate ambient temperature from their readings. Most

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Wade Hampton
Try the Dallas/Maxim 1-wire system. They have serial port controllers with an RJ11 jack so you can use a phone cable to the sensor. I got one of their temp sensors and a cheap RJ11 jack from Radio Shack and had a remote temp sensor. They use a simple serial protocol and some of the controllers

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
One example of many http://quozl.netrek.org/ts/ jobst -Original Message- From: Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com Reply-to: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Temperature sensor Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:00:21 -0500 Does

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Chris Geldenhuis
Wade Hampton wrote: Try the Dallas/Maxim 1-wire system. They have serial port controllers with an RJ11 jack so you can use a phone cable to the sensor. I got one of their temp sensors and a cheap RJ11 jack from Radio Shack and had a remote temp sensor. They use a simple serial protocol and