Monitoring Tempereature of a Windows Box

[FragKing]

Hi guys,

I've got a question about monitoring the temperature of a windows box, one with an Intel STL2 and one with an Intel SWV2 Board.

Windows does not provide thermal SNMP / Performance Counters. Is there any enterprise-ready application that can read the thermal sensors and give them out either as SNMP values or as performance counters? (which can bi gathered with NSClient)?

Or have you got any other suggestion how I could achive this?

Thanks & Regards
FragKing

[Brashquido]

There is a add on for montherboard monitor called mbm2mrtg which outputs the mbm data to a format mrtg can read. I wouldn't imagine that there would be too much to alter here to make the data format readable bt RDD.

[FragKing]

That would be a way to go, yes. But I'm not sure if it is wise to install MBM on production servers....

Regards
Michel

[DevilSun]

Yeah, I personally wouldn't install MBM on production servers either. If this is a production environment, I'd recommend getting a specific environment monitor like TempTrax (http://www.tempelert.com/) or the one I chose WxGoose (http://www.itwatchdogs.com/). You can query them both one way or another...

[FragKing]

I found another solution despite for the mbm thing.
For many servers there are enterprise-ready monitoring applications from the vendor itself, in my case: intel - intel server control (ISC). This tool (which runs as a service) provides the temperature data as SNMP values which I can track with cacti

Just wanted to share my solution.

Regards
Michel

[BSOD2600]

I run MBM5 on all my Win2K3 servers in conjunction with SNMP informant MBM SNMP extention. I've written a script to read in the values using these two tools: http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=7050

[FragKing]

because i personally had some bluescreens using MBM and i read somewhere on the mbm site that you should not use it in production environments and the fact that mbm is not developed further and so on, I prefer the other solution

but thanks for the info, there are many people who will do it this way, for sure.