On 03/02/2008, Dirk Tilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>

>
> --- In [email protected], dandantheitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > I was really trying to monitor temperature.
>
>  There's a lot of hardware coming with temperature sensors these days. So 
> depending on how
>  experimental you want it, you could just buy a recent external hard-drive, 
> switch it off using
>  hdparm (so it doesn't generate any heat) and then monitor the temperature 
> with the
>  smartmontools. ;)
>
>  Dirk.
>

I have gone ahead and ordered one of the temptrax models envirronment
monitors from the weather shop. (Thanks Manu for that one).

Seemed to do everything I wanted and supported snmp.  So will do some
testing and let you know how it goes.

Dan



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