<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">thanks Nick, Bill,<DIV>for the invaluable help,</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 13, 2006, at 3:06 PM, Bill York wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">temptrax offers a relatively cheap box that supports 4 probes per device and outputs html reports. it also plugs into nagios with very little effort. that could supply you with email or txt alerts.<BR><BR>see <A href="http://www.sensatronics.com/cms/index.php/plain/products"> http://www.sensatronics.com/cms/index.php/plain/products</A> and look for the model E. i've used them and they're simple and reliable. they are for environmental measuring and won't tell you that your processor is 40C, but i guess you could drop a probe inside the case. <BR><BR>W<BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 11/13/06, <B class="gmail_sendername">Nick Frost</B> <<A href="mailto:nickf@nickorama.com">nickf@nickorama.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Nick Frost wrote:<BR><BR>> Of course, if the machine is in a server<BR>> room running Linux (where an audible alarm might not be heard), I would<BR>> be inclined to compile an I2C capable kernel with the appropriate module <BR>> for the environment data chip (usually the Winbond 83627 these days),<BR>> and have a cron script that runs "sensors" every 15 mins and send email<BR>> if the temperature gets out of spec. I think the module on my AMD <BR>> machine is "w83627hf"<BR><BR>Another thought.<BR><BR>There are also some commercial PCI boards that monitor temperature, but<BR>they are also expensive.<BR><BR>I have been looking at simple/cheap ways for additional monitoring of PC <BR>case temperature and get the data, which then can send email or page a<BR>cellphone (via email to SMS gateway that most cellular providers now<BR>offer). At SFI I wrote some scripts to query RAID controller and send<BR> and SMS message to a cellphone (via email) in the event of a disc drive<BR>failure, so I figure it ought to be simple to do the same if a<BR>temperature gets out of spec (i.e. a fan fails).<BR><BR>Serial Port Temperature Sensors - Hardware Interface <BR><A href="http://martybugs.net/electronics/tempsensor/hardware.cgi">http://martybugs.net/electronics/tempsensor/hardware.cgi</A><BR><BR>-Nick<BR> _ __ ____<BR> ____ (_)____/ /__/ __/<BR> / __ \/ / ___/ //_/ /_ <BR> / / / / / /__/ ,< / __/<BR>/_/ /_/_/\___/_/|_/_/<BR>Nicholas S. Frost<BR><A href="mailto:nickf@nickorama.com">nickf@nickorama.com</A><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>nmglug mailing list <BR><A href="mailto:nmglug@nmglug.org">nmglug@nmglug.org</A><BR><A href="http://www.nmglug.org/mailman/listinfo/nmglug">http://www.nmglug.org/mailman/listinfo/nmglug</A><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">nmglug mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:nmglug@nmglug.org">nmglug@nmglug.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.nmglug.org/mailman/listinfo/nmglug">http://www.nmglug.org/mailman/listinfo/nmglug</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>