On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bowie Bailey wrote: > Benjamin Franz wrote: >> 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 >>> >> There is a good chance that lm-sensors supports your servers with >> no additional hardware needed. To configure lm-sensors, run >> 'sensors-detect' as root. If your cpu/motherboard is supported you >> will be able to read system temps directly either using SNMP or by >> scraping 'sensors' output. > > I'm looking for room temperature, not case temperature. Some hardware provides SNMP-addressable information on the temperature of inbound air, not just case temperature. I realize that inbound temperature is not exactly the same as room temp, but it's a pretty good approximation in many case. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/