Hardware monitoring

Sun Jun 14 15:55:13 UTC 2015

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
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> These support APC's own temp/humidity probes, various user input, modbus rs-485 port, etc.
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> 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
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Rafael Possamai
> Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2015 12:55 PM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Hardware monitoring
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> 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.
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> I know of Cacti, but it would require SNMP enabled devices AFAIK, so room/generator/misc monitors wouldn't necessarily be included.
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Rafael
>