Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2008-05-05 Thread Jo Rhett
On Apr 21, 2008, at 6:17 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > Well, it's not PDU; I'm trying to meter the building service, which is > three separate panels with a 200A breaker each, and runs a bit warmer > than I'm comfortable with. > > Commercial solutions for this are $5k, which I won't get. > > A coupl

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2008-04-21 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 01:20:30PM -0400, Jonathan Dill wrote: > hobby-boards has nice sensors that measure humidity, temp, and > optionally light ("solar") in one package. I'd seen those, and the USB transceiver as well, which is nice. > Unfortunately, measuring the current and voltage on 240

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2008-04-21 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
[ inadvertantly didn't send these to the list ] On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:29:45AM -0400, Jonathan Dill wrote: > On Apr 21, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > >Aha! > >Thanks. It ain't wireless, but at the price, I also don't care. :-) > > Also, it's all cabled together with inexpensiv

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2008-04-21 Thread Jonathan Dill
On Apr 21, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:37:10PM +0200, Thomas Althoff wrote: >> 1-Wire is your friend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Wire plus >> http://www.owfs.org/ >> >> I have 8 senors in my rack ~$150. One sensor + usb 1-wire ~$30-40 > > Aha! > > Tha

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2008-04-21 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:37:10PM +0200, Thomas Althoff wrote: > 1-Wire is your friend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Wire plus > http://www.owfs.org/ > > I have 8 senors in my rack ~$150. One sensor + usb 1-wire ~$30-40 Aha! Thanks. It ain't wireless, but at the price, I also don't care. :-)

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2008-04-21 Thread Jonathan Dill
On Apr 20, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > I've seen the temperature monitor stuff Ethan has links to on the > website, but I'm the new guy, and I don't have a budget quite yet. > > LaCrosse, for example, has 10-channel capable wireless temp and > possible temp/hyg sensor/transmitters

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2008-04-20 Thread Thomas Althoff
> I've seen the temperature monitor stuff Ethan has links to on the website, but I'm the new guy, and I don't have a budget quite yet. 1-Wire is your friend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Wire plus http://www.owfs.org/ I have 8 senors in my rack ~$150. One sensor + usb 1-wire ~$30-40 -Thomas

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2008-04-20 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 01:53:47PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > LaCrosse, for example, has 10-channel capable wireless temp and > possible temp/hyg sensor/transmitters for very close to $20 each... but > while they have a PC interface, it's not clear at all whether the > interface has its own 43

[Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2008-04-20 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
I've seen the temperature monitor stuff Ethan has links to on the website, but I'm the new guy, and I don't have a budget quite yet. LaCrosse, for example, has 10-channel capable wireless temp and possible temp/hyg sensor/transmitters for very close to $20 each... but while they have a PC interfac

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2007-12-20 Thread Mark Lucia
Well, that answers that question 0 never mind then and Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: Matthew Boeckman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 12/20/2007 6:24 PM To: Mark Lucia Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2007-12-20 Thread Matthew Boeckman
WeatherDuck has a great unit for $199: http://www.itwatchdogs.com/ On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 17:35 +0100, Mark Lucia wrote: > Who would be interested in a < $100 network device that would allow temp & > humidity monitoring? http and maybe SNMP... > > > - Mark Lucia (mlucia) > >

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2007-12-20 Thread Lars Stavholm
Mark Lucia wrote: > Who would be interested in a < $100 network device that would allow temp & > humidity monitoring? http and maybe SNMP... +1 /L - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsof

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2007-12-20 Thread Mark Lucia
Who would be interested in a < $100 network device that would allow temp & humidity monitoring? http and maybe SNMP... - Mark Lucia (mlucia) --- This thread is located in the archive at this URL: http://www.nagiosexchange.org/nagios-users.34.0.html?&tx_maillisttofaq_pi1[show

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2007-12-17 Thread Jeff Penno
Kevin I'm currently monitoring the temperature and humidity in one of our server rooms with a Watchport/H sensor that costs about $150: http://www.provantage.com/digi-international-301-1141~7DIGI015.htm Software that comes with it is only for Windows but the modules are bui

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2007-12-08 Thread Martijn Lievaart
Kevin Scott Sumner wrote: > Serial is nearly right-out, since we use serial on our machines for console > redirection. I can throw an add-in card into one of the larger machines, I > suppose. Of course, I have seen howtos online to build USB sensors, too... > > Although none of us in the office

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2007-11-28 Thread Vanhee Frederik
Giles Coochey wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Scott Sumner >> Sent: 28 November 2007 15:49 >> To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: [Nagios-users] En

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2007-11-28 Thread Russell Adams
I've had good results with AKCP devices for environmental monitoring. http://www.akcpinc.com/ The smallest sensorprobe with 2 sensor ports including a single temperature / humidity sensor is under $500. These run on Ethernet with an SNMP and Web interface, and integrate nicely with Nagios. Russe

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2007-11-28 Thread C. Bensend
> This is somewhat off-topic, but can anyone recommend a vendor for > environmental? I would like to monitor the temp. and humidity of our two > server rooms. Integration with Nagios is a huge plus. We use a number of TemPager 4E units: http://www.tempager.com/ Nagios queries them via SNMP.

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2007-11-28 Thread Kevin Scott Sumner
Serial is nearly right-out, since we use serial on our machines for console redirection. I can throw an add-in card into one of the larger machines, I suppose. Of course, I have seen howtos online to build USB sensors, too... Although none of us in the office are too handy with a soldering gun

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2007-11-28 Thread Giles Coochey
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Scott Sumner > Sent: 28 November 2007 15:49 > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring > > This is som

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2007-11-28 Thread Dennis Hünseler
Hi Kevin, what about self made humidity and temperature sensors on serial line? I remember several how to's online... If this could be one option for you ask google how to :-) kind regards, Dennis On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:48:51 -0500 (EST), Kevin Scott Sumner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2007-11-28 Thread Cipriani, Robert C
, November 28, 2007 9:49 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring This is somewhat off-topic, but can anyone recommend a vendor for environmental? I would like to monitor the temp. and humidity of our two server rooms. Integration with Nagios is a huge

[Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2007-11-28 Thread Kevin Scott Sumner
This is somewhat off-topic, but can anyone recommend a vendor for environmental? I would like to monitor the temp. and humidity of our two server rooms. Integration with Nagios is a huge plus. Cheers, Kevin - Kevin Sumner [EMAIL PROTECTED] (919) 962-6494 Assistant Systems Administrator Phy