Adding thermal data as Performance counter?

[JimTaylor]

Hi,

This might be a bit of an obvious question but i've Googled for hours and can't find what I want to know.

We're using a monitoring package to keep an eye on our servers and one of the things it does is retrieve any of the values you like from the standard Windows performance monitoring environment, and store them as Quality of Service data. Lots of nice counters for spotting trends in usage over periods of time, etc.

However. One thing that is missing out of there that would be really useful is stuff specific to HP hardware, and more specifically thermal data from the onboard temperature probes. I know the system is watching this sort of data, as I'm already extracting this through SNMP but it'd be a lot more useful if I could add it into Windows directly somehow as a watchable value in perfmon and then read that back out to my monitoring system. Using the SNMP is a bit of a kludgy way of doing it :(

Does anyone have any advice or links on how to go about doing this?

Thanks in advance! :)

[JimTaylor]

Actually.. this can probably be closed.

I found a thread posted back in about March 2007 where someone from HP commented that work has been progressing in this area for some time, but it is still a way off being able to go into general release and that SNMP was still really the only way to get the extra 'Value Add' monitoring out of a HP server.

Ho hum! Thanks anyway.