Store and report on Ambient temperature

[Brian Dawson]

There are a number of SNMP traps which monitor the Temperature Sensors, one of which is the Ambient temperature of a server.

We have a requirement whereby we would like to monitor the ambient temperatures of servers within a new data centre.

Can this information be stored in HPSIM? If so, how? And then can it be used by the SIM reporting tool to produce historical trend analysis, by rack, over a period of time?

[David Claypool · Accepted solution]

No. HP SIM's database contains rather static configuration information and is not for dynamically changing information. Only G5 servers and c-Class BladeSystem have an ambient temperature sensor; it was not present in previous generations.

To a great degree, the ambient temperature is irrelevant. What makes you think you need to monitor it?

[Brian Dawson]

We do not have any sensors in the racks to monitor the temperature therefore we are looking at the temperature of the servers themselves, (ambient or maybe cpu). Being able to monitor the temperature by rack would enable us to see if there are any variances in temperature in different parts of the room.

[Brian Dawson]

Good information