[mrtg] Re: Temperature monitoring

[Garth K. Williams]

For external temperature monitoring, I use APC Matrix UPS with the
MeasureUPs module, and the APC MIB to gather room ambient temp and humidity.
MRTG tracks them perfectly, along with power, of course.

BTW: The MeasureUPs also allows you to monitor other externals like an open
computer room door.  I connected my room's air conditioner to the MeasureUPs
and now get an SNMP alert if the air conditioner goes into an alarm state.

Worth getting, if you want to do external monitoring, IMHO.


Garth K. Williams - Systems Engineer (MCP+I, MCSE, CNA)
Williams Technology Consulting Services
Edmonton, Alberta  Canada	Phone: (780) 469-4341

Web: http://www.wtcs.org	Email: mailto:garth.williams at home.com
Home of: http://snmp.cjb.net - SNMP for the Public Community


-----Original Message-----
From: mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch [mailto:mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch]On
Behalf Of Roy Rapoport
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 8:55 AM
To: Kevin Sheard
Cc: MRTG distribution list
Subject: [mrtg] Re: Temperature monitoring


On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Kevin Sheard wrote:
> Does anyone have the OID for monitoring environmental status of Cisco kit?
I'm
> particularly looking for temperature info.

We use 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.13.1.3.1.3.1.  This works for both our 7500 and our
7000.  One thing to point out (though it's probably somewhat obvious) is
that you can't rely on it to point out _external_ tempoerature (like the
temperature in your server room) -- only the internal temp, which means
that you can use it to see if things are going bad or if there's a bad
trend, but not for overall temp monitoring.  Which is why we use dedicated
RS232 sensors for that :)

-roy

--
* To unsubscribe from the mrtg mailing list, send a message with the
  subject: unsubscribe to mrtg-request at list.ee.ethz.ch
* The mailing list archive is at http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg

--
* To unsubscribe from the mrtg mailing list, send a message with the
  subject: unsubscribe to mrtg-request at list.ee.ethz.ch
* The mailing list archive is at http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg