Server Room Temp Monitoring and Notifications?

Supp0rtLinux asks: "Like many businesses, my server room is a standalone environment from the rest of my building. It has its own UPS, its own survelliance system, and its own AC system powered by its own generator. These are separate from the global building UPS, survelliance, AC, and generator systems and are designed to operate even when the rest of the building is down. However, in my current server room and in others I work with, I find that the AC systems generally lack a network-based notification system. As such, while my server room AC failed at 2am last night and temperature climbed to over 98 degrees, no one was aware until after 8am this morning when the audible alarms were heard. How do other Slashdot readers handle this?" "I've thought about using some server motherboard with thermal monitoring, but they typically: a) only allow for shutdown at a certain temp, not for warning/email; and b) a well cooled server may not necessarily become excessively hot even if the room heats up. I know some newer AC systems *do* support SMTP notifications, but older ones either do not or are cost-prohibitive add-ons. The very popular Lieberts that are found in the ceilings of many server rooms are a good example of this. Do you know of devices that are network/SMTP capable that can be set with thresholds and alarms and generate emails, pages, or SMS messages when said alarms go off?"

Comments

Here you go

[A nonymous Coward]

Hot Little Therm but see the warning about no longer selling them ... great thermo probes, wish they were still selling them. I am glad I have a few extra.

Weather Duck and Power Egg

These ought to do the trick just fine. A bit of configuring or shell scripting, send email to a cell phone or pager or whatever, you should be happy as a clam at high tide.

There are probably others as well. There may even be source code on sourceforge. Hot Little Therm has software. Weather Duck may also.

Nagios + Websensor

[asc4]

http://www.nagios.org/products/environmental/esens ors/em01b.php

Doesn't get any easier.

Thermal Cube + Nagios

[saintp]

Build yourself a couple of Thermal Cubes ($3.50 - $5.00 each), and connect them to a box running Nagios (which you should be running anyway). Hey presto, temperature monitoring. And you get to play with soldering irons at work, which can be great fun if you act secretive and mutter about overclocking.