Environmental monitoring

[Kevin Scott Sumner]

Serial is nearly right-out, since we use serial on our machines for console 
redirection.  I can throw an add-in card into one of the larger machines, I 
suppose.  Of course, I have seen howtos online to build USB sensors, too...

Although none of us in the office are too handy with a soldering gun, I 
might be able to convince/coerce one of our Electronics faculty to build a 
few for us.  :)

I'm really looking for some inexpensive, preferably USB sensors to hang off 
a couple of machines.  The $20 to $50 (USD) range is nice, but we could 
probably go up to $100 each.  We don't really need a dedicated env 
monitoring device, like APC offers.

Cheers,
Kevin
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Kevin Sumner
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Physics and Astronomy Networking Infrastructure and Computing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Dennis Hünseler wrote:

>
>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> what about self made humidity and temperature sensors on serial line? I
> remember several how to's online...
> If this could be one option for you ask google how to :-)
>
> kind regards, Dennis
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:48:51 -0500 (EST), Kevin Scott Sumner
> <ksumner at physics.unc.edu> wrote:
>> This is somewhat off-topic, but can anyone recommend a vendor for
>> environmental?  I would like to monitor the temp. and humidity of our two
>> server rooms.  Integration with Nagios is a huge plus.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kevin
>> -----
>> Kevin Sumner
>> ksumner at physics.unc.edu
>> (919) 962-6494
>> Assistant Systems Administrator
>> Physics and Astronomy Networking Infrastructure and Computing
>> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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