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. > If your goal is simply to know when the server room is getting hot, the difference doesn't matter. All you need to know is that it is warmer than normal: The case temps will track room temps + some roughly constant number of degrees. -- Benjamin Franz