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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='margin-left:3.0pt;margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:3.0pt;margin-bottom:.75pt'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks, Jon. It looks like those are in the $400+ range -- am I perhaps not seeing a less-expensive version that you’re using?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>--<br>Trever<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Jon Adcock [mailto:AdcockJ@leoncountyfl.gov] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 09, 2010 1:41 PM<br><b>To:</b> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nagios-users] low-cost snmp-enabled temperature sensor?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Trevor,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"'> We are successfully using Websensors (<a href="http://www.eesensors.com/websensor.html">http://www.eesensors.com/websensor.html</a>). These models can monitor temp, humidity and illumination, and with add-on pieces, they can monitor for the presence of water, and electrical power voltage.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"'> One of the nice things about these components is that they come with Nagios check plugins and instructions on how to install/setup Nagios monitoring. They provide the monitored details over IP (not SNMP), and you can see the details at any time by using a browser to access the webpage (<a href="http://%3cip">http://<ip</a> address>.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Jon Adcock<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Network Systems Administrator<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>MIS / Systems Team<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Leon County<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>(850) 606-5500<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>>>> "Furnish, Trever G" <<a href="mailto:TGFurnish@herffjones.com">TGFurnish@herffjones.com</a>> 12/9/2010 1:16 PM >>><br>Can anyone recommend a low-cost external temperature sensor that doesn't<br>require the buyer to break out a soldering iron?<br><br>Preferably it would be SNMP-enabled so I can poll it from anything.<br>Power-over-ethernet would be great too.<br><br>The least expensive snmp-enabled sensor I've found so far is this one at<br>195 USD:<br><a href="http://avtech.com/Products/Temperature_Monitors/TemPageR_3E.htm">http://avtech.com/Products/Temperature_Monitors/TemPageR_3E.htm</a><br><br>I've also noted probes like this one at 15 USD:<br><a href="http://www.ibuttonlink.com/t-sense.aspx">http://www.ibuttonlink.com/t-sense.aspx</a><br><br>...but the systems in the site where I'd hook this up are all Windows,<br>so I'm not sure how I'd get from there into Nagios.<br><br>--<br>Trever Furnish, <a href="mailto:tgfurnish@herffjones.com">tgfurnish@herffjones.com</a><br>Herff Jones, Inc. 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