We've always just use the built in sensor of the server MB (not the one for the CPU) and wrote a simple perl script that NRPE can call locally. It's free (which is good as we usually don't have much of a budget for such stuff) and gives a pretty good idea for temperature, but doesn't help for humidity or the likes. You can also do a temperature correction in the script if you want to get a closer idea of what the real temperature is.
-Hugh On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Daniel Fussell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/30/2012 05:40 PM, Victor Villa wrote: > > I'd like to start to monitor the environment in the server room (temp, > > humidity, etc), i'm interested to see what is working out there and if it > > is connected with something like nagios for alerting. > > > We use AVTECH's Room Alert 4E, along with some custom scripts to poll it > and track trends. Cacti would probably be just as easy to use for that > though. > > We also use a sensaphone as a backup for times when a power outage takes > out the network, but leaves the phone network still working. Call me > paranoid, but it's actually been quite useful. > > ;-Daniel Fussell > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > -- _________________ www.i-su-root.com /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
