Even cheaper, but a little more DYI, you can look into building a small Linux box, load MRTG (which you should be running anyway), and crafting small probe scripts that would feed the "traffic" grapher. For switch closures like on water-sensors, you will need an I/O board, but they are readily available and pretty easy to script.

For temperature/voltage alarms, those same scripts can send alarm e-mail when particular values fall outside of the range. Ditto switch sensing.

Also, there are SNMP-based solutions you may not have thought of. Have Cisco routers? The environmental sensors are available via SNMP.


On 06/14/2015 08:43 AM, Ryan DiRocco wrote:
Just for getting your feet wet and doing so on a (tiny) budget..... If you want 
to monitor non-SNMP devices such as things like room temp probes, water leak 
detection, generator/ats/ups alarm outputs, etc . You could look into something 
like the APC AP9340 units

These support APC's own temp/humidity probes, various user input, modbus rs-485 
port, etc.

They are very cheap (~$100) or so in ebay land and are quite easy to monitor 
via SNMP.
User Guide: http://www.apcmedia.com/salestools/ASTE-6Z5QDH/ASTE-6Z5QDH_R1_EN.pdf

-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Rafael Possamai
Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2015 12:55 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Hardware monitoring

Hi everyone,

I know this is slightly off-topic, but since it's still related to the list, I 
thought I'd give it a try. I am wondering what systems are out there (open 
source, preferably) for data collection and processing of hardware health data 
(temperature, CPU clock, fan speeds, etc). Ideally brand agnostic and location 
agnostic as well.

I know of Cacti, but it would require SNMP enabled devices AFAIK, so 
room/generator/misc monitors wouldn't necessarily be included.


Thanks in advance.

Rafael


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