Lightweight temperature monitoring on Windows Server 2008

Take a look a ITwatchdogs. Their weather goose line looks very nice. They monitor temp, light, sound, humidity, etc.

Here's a list of vendors (not APC) that have other products.

What I use in my data center appears to be a discontinued model. What ever you end up using, make sure that:

• They use SNMP, not some special protocol.
• Have remote temperature sensors. (I don't know if the netbotz do ...)

Currently the temperature monitors are hung from the middle of the drop ceiling.

Using a simple network monitoring application (zenoss, munin, nagios, etc) just monitor for threshold violations and create alerts for your pager/email.

You should also look into buying a handheld thermometer and walk around to every part of your datacenter/comm closet (including corners) to find any hotspots.

The problem is, these performance collection rules are disabled by default. You just need to turn them on. From the Dell MP documentation:

In the Operations Console, Dell→ Performance and Power Monitoring Views displays the performance information that is collected from Dell Systems. This feature is available on installation of Scalable Server Management Pack. By default this feature is disabled. To enable this feature perform the following:

1 Open the Authoring pane in the Operations Console.

2 Select Rules.

3 Right-click the rule you want to enable.

For example, to enable information to be collected on energy consumption of Dell Systems, select Dell Server Energy Consumption collection rule.

4 Select Overrides → Override the rule → For all objects of class

5 Select Override and provide Override value as True.

6 Click Apply.