We use one of these: http://www.networktechinc.com/enviro-rems.html plus external monitors for temp, humidity, in both the datacenter and the UPS room down the hall.
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Harry Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > For those who monitor server room temp: do you have an externally > connected ambient temp probe via USB ? if that's completely off, how > do you folks get that done? > > A curious mind inquires... > > On 3/3/10, Sherry Abercrombie <[email protected]> wrote: > > NM, I had forgotten we use Nagios QL to configure our Nagios servers. So > > that's the web-based GUI ;) > > > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Sherry Abercrombie > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > >> What version of Nagios are you using Dave? > >> > >> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:43 AM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> In my opinion, it’s a pain in the ass to add a lot of services/hosts > at > >>> a time, but that was a while back – you can do it (make changes) via > GUI > >>> instead of editing text files now? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> *From:* Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[email protected]] > >>> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 03, 2010 9:39 AM > >>> > >>> *To:* NT System Admin Issues > >>> *Subject:* Re: Nagios > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Installed on *nix, but can monitor windows, *nix, etc etc. Once > >>> installed, it is a web interface for configuration. > >>> > >>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Ziots, Edward <[email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> Is Nagios available for Windows? Or is this a *nix only type of > >>> monitoring > >>> software? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Interested myself on learning about this one, > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Z > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Edward Ziots > >>> > >>> MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I,CCA,Security+ Network+ > >>> > >>> Network Engineer > >>> > >>> Lifespan Organization > >>> > >>> 401-639-3505 > >>> > >>> [email protected] > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> *From:* Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[email protected]] > >>> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 03, 2010 11:07 AM > >>> > >>> > >>> *To:* NT System Admin Issues > >>> > >>> *Subject:* Re: Nagios > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> We actually have 2 Nagios servers setup, one in our server room, and > one > >>> at our colo facility. We have each of them monitoring things on the > >>> other > >>> end so that we know about web-site outages, mail connectivity etc. > >>> > >>> 2010/3/3 Miguel González Castaños <[email protected]> > >>> > >>> On 03/03/2010 04:21, Shawn Everett wrote: > >>> > >>> For those of you that use Nagios, I'd be interested to learn what you > >>> monitor and to some degree how you do it. > >>> > >>> Personally we monitor: > >>> - Server Room Temperature > >>> - Hardware health on our HP Servers via SNMP > >>> - Basic Windows metrics: drive space, CPU load, RAM etc. > >>> - ntbackup and backup exec backup job statuses > >>> - service availability: http, dns, smtp etc > >>> - Oracle database health on our Linux servers > >>> - The same sorts of metrics as above on Linux > >>> > >>> > >>> we do service and machine availability. Backups are monitored and > >>> reported > >>> by netbackup Java client and you can build your own reports. > >>> > >>> Miguel > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > >>> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Sherry Abercrombie > >>> > >>> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." > >>> Arthur C. Clarke > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Sherry Abercrombie > >>> > >>> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." > >>> Arthur C. Clarke > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Sherry Abercrombie > >> > >> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." > >> Arthur C. Clarke > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Sherry Abercrombie > > > > "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." > > Arthur C. Clarke > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
