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Monitoring the temperature of a K570

 
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Peter Day_2
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Monitoring the temperature of a K570

Guys,
I am supporting a K570, which is not in a particularly well kept environment.(Iâ m being polite)

I have major concerns that this server is going to have big problems in the summer, and I would like to be proactive and let them know that there server is reaching critical temperatures.

Is there anyway of monitoring some of the internal temperatures using something like 'stm' / 'cstm'.

Any suggestions would be very helpful.

Pe
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melvyn burnard
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Re: Monitoring the temperature of a K570

The system shoul dbe able tomonitor it's internal temp,and log it to Syslog.
do
man envd
This may help you
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A. Clay Stephenson
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Re: Monitoring the temperature of a K570

To a limited extent this is possible. Man envd for details. You can have it send you an email when the non-configurable OVERTEMP_CRIT threshhold has been reached. A far better answer is to use a device intended for temperature. It's scientific name is "thermometer". I use inexpensive digital thermometers with built-in serial interfaces. It's then a simple matter to periodically poll the thermometer and log the temperature and/or take action. The nice thing about this approach is that when you change equipment, you don't have to worry about how a particular piece of hardware measures temperature (or if it does so at all).

I use the digital thermometer approach in spite of the fact that I can ask the HVAC units the same question.
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Hazem Mahmoud_3
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Re: Monitoring the temperature of a K570

We also currently have envd running. Luckily it was never utilized. To configure the response for how envd reacts to certain scenarios, edit the file /etc/envd.conf. You can set it up to email/page you, etc. It will also log the event in Syslog (and you can deactivate that if you want, but I don't think that's wise).

-Hazem
Ulrich Tehrani
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Re: Monitoring the temperature of a K570

Hello Peter,

i think there are several ways to monitor the server temperature:

1.)via snmp. But i don't know the exact snmp oid
2.)You can setup a hardware monitoring (use /etc/opt/resmon/lbin/monconfig) with notification. You will be informed if the inlet temperature is to High.