Discussion:
[cacti-user] Using Cacti to Monitor Server Room Temperature
Kaplan, Andrew H.
2006-02-27 14:48:45 UTC
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Jimmy Conner
2006-02-27 16:06:31 UTC
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Hi there -
1. Monitor server room temperature
As long as you have a Temperature probe that supports SNMP, or another way of
reporting via the network, than yes. You may have to write a custom script to pull
it, but its very easy. I don't have a SNMP enabled temperature probe, so just
monitor it via some of the motherboards in our servers (not CPU temperature, the MB
temp). Its not exact, but we can see when the temperature starts increasing.
2. Send out notifications via e-mail or pager if the temperature exceeds a
certain level.
Threshold Plugin makes this a snap, and its what we use.
If so, what temperature sensor is recommended for this configuration? Thanks.
Can't really recommend any since I have never used any of the commercial ones. If
you happen to run across any plans to make your own and possible access it via
serial or something, let me know!

Jimmy
Roy Grubb
2006-02-27 16:19:16 UTC
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Was pretty simple I thought as we monitor temperature in all of our remote
NOC sites. We use units from akcp.com and set up pretty simple graphs
polling the snmp variables with gauge as source type. For the paging and
emailing of these units, we actually go a step further and use What's up
Pro..

Roy
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Post by Jimmy Conner
Hi there -
1. Monitor server room temperature
As long as you have a Temperature probe that supports SNMP, or another way of
reporting via the network, than yes. You may have to write a custom script to pull
it, but its very easy. I don't have a SNMP enabled temperature probe, so just
monitor it via some of the motherboards in our servers (not CPU temperature, the MB
temp). Its not exact, but we can see when the temperature starts increasing.
2. Send out notifications via e-mail or pager if the temperature exceeds a
certain level.
Threshold Plugin makes this a snap, and its what we use.
If so, what temperature sensor is recommended for this configuration? Thanks.
Can't really recommend any since I have never used any of the commercial ones. If
you happen to run across any plans to make your own and possible access it via
serial or something, let me know!
Jimmy
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Jimmy Conner
2006-02-27 17:07:45 UTC
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Heh, the reason I developed the Monitor plugin, and took over the Threshold
development was that my Manager wanted to get away from Whats Up Gold (and quite
paying license costs), and to integrate everything into one package, Cacti. He has
been more than pleased with Cacti so far, and I continue to surprise him every month
with new stuff it seems. I am currently writing my own SNMP Extension Agent to
monitor a few of our custom windows apps.

Jimmy
Post by Roy Grubb
Was pretty simple I thought as we monitor temperature in all of our remote
NOC sites. We use units from akcp.com and set up pretty simple graphs
polling the snmp variables with gauge as source type. For the paging and emailing of
these units, we actually go a step further and use What's up Pro..
Roy
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Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: [cacti-user] Using Cacti to Monitor Server Room Temperature
Post by Jimmy Conner
Hi there -
1. Monitor server room temperature
As long as you have a Temperature probe that supports SNMP, or another way
of reporting via the network, than yes. You may have to write a custom script to
pull it, but its very easy. I don't have a SNMP enabled temperature probe, so just
monitor it via some of the motherboards in our servers (not CPU temperature, the MB
temp). Its not exact, but we can see when the temperature starts increasing.
2. Send out notifications via e-mail or pager if the temperature
exceeds a certain level.
Threshold Plugin makes this a snap, and its what we use.
If so, what temperature sensor is recommended for this configuration? Thanks.
Can't really recommend any since I have never used any of the commercial
ones. If you happen to run across any plans to make your own and possible access
it via serial or something, let me know!
Jimmy
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Ted Serreyn
2006-03-03 02:59:52 UTC
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Why not combine this with nagios. I have this working for my lab area with
a temptrax unit. We monitor the lab temp in two locations, the attic temp,
and the outside temp all on the same sensor.



Nagios gives me the alerts, cacti gives me the historical data.



Ted
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Hi there -



Does Cacti have the capability to do the following:



1. Monitor server room temperature

2. Send out notifications via e-mail or pager if the temperature
exceeds a certain level.



If so, what temperature sensor is recommended for this configuration?
Thanks.
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