[CentOS] Temperature sensor

[John Doe]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:00:21AM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> Does anyone know of a cheap temperature sensor that will work with
> Linux?  I don't need a fancy monitoring appliance, I just want a simple
> sensor that I can connect to one of my monitoring servers to let me know
> if the server room is getting hot.

Sorry, only one I used years ago (Hot Little Therm) is discontinued...
But, unless you already checked, some servers have integrated "ambiant" temperature...
By example, on HP servers:
# /sbin/hplog -t
ID     TYPE        LOCATION      STATUS    CURRENT  THRESHOLD 
 1  Basic Sensor I/O Zone        Normal   114F/ 46C 149F/ 65C 
 2  Basic Sensor Ambient         Normal    78F/ 26C 104F/ 40C 
 3  Basic Sensor CPU (1)         Normal    91F/ 33C 203F/ 95C 
 4  Basic Sensor CPU (1)         Normal    91F/ 33C 203F/ 95C 
 5  Basic Sensor Pwr. Supply Bay Normal    91F/ 33C 140F/ 60C 
 6  Basic Sensor CPU (2)         Normal   ---F/---C 203F/ 95C 
 7  Basic Sensor CPU (2)         Normal   ---F/---C 203F/ 95C

JD