Hello, Yesterday I installed two temperature sensors in my server room. I set them both for 10 degrees higher than the current. Well, the building people raise the temperature up at night to save on energy.
I do have my own cooling system in there, but it did not compensate for the building raising and set off the alarms. My threshold was for 75 degrees and the peek it went up to was 76. Unfortunately it paged me around 75 times last night. The problem is that for some reason, the monitor was reporting every other change in temperature as an UPALERT. Thus causing it to page me to give me the cheery news, and resetting the flag that would prevent it from paging me again a few minutes later. If anyone wonders, it took 27 pages before I silenced it and went back to sleep. So it basically went like this: ALERT (temp 75.7) UPALERT (temp 75.3) ALERT (temp 75.4) UPALERT (temp 75.6) etc, etc... All of these are above the stated MAX limit of 75. For some reason, ever other one is coming as good news - even though the temperature could have gone up. I am going to spend part of today insuring I can sleep tonight (first by raising the MAX temp) by solving this - but if anyone has any thoughts on this - i would love to hear them. I got zero REM sleep last night so bear with me. Thanks, Bill Mars Needs Women. _______________________________________________ mon mailing list mon@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon
