Temperature monitoring using TempTrax

[Pete Dewell]

In response to your request for clarification :-

Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:

> 
> If you're saying, "I have been constrained by management to make TempTrax
> work on Windows, and have Nagios work with them," 

That's an awfully polite way of putting it, but yes; in essence, this is 
what is required.

> you might be hard pressed
> to find someone doing this.  (If someone jumps in and has a solution, great!
> Then perhaps it could be thusly noted on Ethan's site. :)  

Please. Anybody?

> Having said that,
> I don't know whether there's any Windows software which will monitor a
> TempTrax device and dovetail with perfmon.  If so, then NSClient should be
> able to monitor that.

I have had a look at the TempTrax software, which is pretty good in 
itself, but doesn't seem to link directly to perfmon. I suspect I could 
probably get it to fit with perfmon - it does allow you to run a program 
as an "alert", but this may well entail writing a bit of code to do 
this. I am quite happy to use nsclient to do the monitoring if possible. 
I will investigate this further - I don't really know windows, so I may 
be some time.

> 
> If the above doesn't work, some options:
> 
> - build out a low-end Linux box and dovetail it with TempTrax
> - purchase a hardware solution, and use check_snmp
> 

I am trying to persuade people to go for the low-end Linux box. It would 
only really need to run nrpe, or return a passive check to nsca. However 
(see 1st problem) managment would much prefer to use a Windows solution.

Thanks for the idea about perfmon - will check it out.

Pete Dewell

> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Pete Dewell [mailto:pete.dewell at VoltEurope.com]
>>Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 6:27 AM
>>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>Subject: [Nagios-users] Temperature monitoring using TempTrax
>>
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Is there anybody out there who has a TempTrax unit plugged into a
>>Windows machine, which then has Nagios monitoring the 
>>temperature as an
>>active check ? If so, how did you get it to work ?
>>I can see no way of doing this other than writing a Windows prog to
>>return the data, either as nrpe-type response, or as a passive check.
>>
>>I would rather plug the device straight into a Linux box and use nrpe,
>>but *have* to be able to use Windows.
>>
>>Pete Dewell
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