[hobbit] Temperature Graphs

[Patrick Nixon]

The boxes I'm monitoring are windows box, so I had to go a slightly
convulted route to get the temperature information

1.) Install SpeedFan to enable monitoring for the desired temperature probes
2.) Configure SpeedFan to run as a service at boot up to enable
non-login monitoring
3.) Installed ActiveState Perl to run the script to extract the
temperature information out of SpeedFan's log file and output the file
into BBNT's saved logs directory
4.) Configured Windows to run the temp perl script every five minutes

In terms of Linux servers, I know there are scripts out there that
will work on lm-sensors and you may have to tweak them to get the
right output, but I don't imagine it will be hard.   I just don't have
any linux boxes in this setup that have a working lm-sensors setup.

If you'd like the script I wrote, even though it's probably horrible
perl, I can post it up.

--Pat

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Gavin Leonard <gleonard at progrexion.com> wrote:
> How is this done? I have some systems in a closet that we have problems with heat and I would love to be able to monitor this with hobbit..
>
> -Gavin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Nixon [mailto:pnixon at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 7:54 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Temperature Graphs
>
> okay,
>  I figured out that Xymon can handle the temperature graph
> automatically given the correct data format.
>
> I found documented format to be:
> Device             Temp(C)  Temp(F)
> -----------------------------------
> &green Temp1    42      90
> &green Temp2    34      80
> &green ACPI-Temp1       45      92
>
>
> It's working all fine.
>
> Thanks for all the help!
>