Monitoring Colo Cage Temperature

Fri Aug 8 10:16:08 PDT 2003

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, David Smith wrote:

>Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 10:08:03 -0700
>From: David Smith <dsmith at FinancialEngines.com>
>To: Alan Factor <afactor at afactor.com>
>Cc: baylisa at baylisa.org
>Subject: Re: Monitoring Colo Cage Temperature
>
>Alan,
>
>You can checkout http://www.netbotz.com/.  Also I know some dell servers have
>ambient temp sensors that you can monitor.  I imagine other large vendors
>do the same.
>
>Once you get the sensor MRTG works great for this kind of stuff.

Do you need to just monitor or do you also need to alarm ? If the latter
you may want to look at nagios (www.nagios.org), some company had a
special offer on temperature probes for nagios users if I remember right.

>On Fri, 08 Aug 2003, Alan Factor wrote:
>
>> Can anybody recommend equipment/methods to monitor temperatures in a colo
>> cage? My client has several cages (10'x10' to 10'x20' with 5 to 15 racks)
>> in a colo facility and I need to monitor hot spots in the cages.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alan
>>
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