What make of environmental equipment do you have? Several of the boxes I've
used had built-in SNMP devices with MIBS for temperature, humidity, etc.
One even had a battery-powered modem for backup notification in case the
network was unavailable.
I'd check with the vendor first...
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* Erik Sojka, MCSE *
* Manager, Network Services *
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon Olson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 9:52 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Power Outage - Heating Up
>
>
> We have a rather large facility, raised floor and air
> conditioned. We have a
> backup generator that handle the Computer Room really well
> during a power
> outage except it was never sized to handle the Air cooling unit.
>
> We had a rolling black out recently that lasted two hours and
> the room got
> very very hot. Yes, I am in California.
>
> We are in the process of enlarging the Computer room and we
> are going to
> resize the generator at that time. But, my question is - is
> there some way
> we can setup some type of alert if the temp in the room goes
> up? It needs to
> be able to send an email or place a call in case it happened
> after normal
> work hours. Anyone have any ideas? How about a way to send an
> alert if the
> air unit loses power? If we could setup alerts we could
> gracefully shut
> servers down remotely if need be or something.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Gordon
>
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