shutting down machines with Nagios

Hugo van der Kooij hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org
Thu Jun 8 21:40:09 CEST 2006


On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Johnston Michael J Contr AFRL/DES wrote:

>
> Does anyone use anything that will go out and shutdown computers in
> instances where a room is over heating or too many errors start occurring?
> We've recently had a problem with heat in a server room.  I got messages
> that the room was overheating, but by the time I got there the room was
> really hot and all the machines were running.  I'm looking for something
> that takes steps to save machines if a threshold is ever met or exceeded.

Beside the tricky issues allready mentioned.

Doing maths on thermals is a required exercise and one should fix the
issue of poor thermal design here.

Stopping systems is only a stop-gap method.

Hugo.

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