Environmental monitoring options

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I'd like to ask the list what products people are using to monitor their
environments. By this I'm referring to datacenters, and other equipment.
Temperature, humidity, airflow, cameras, dry contacts, door sensors, leak
detection, all that sort of thing.

I've used Netbotz in the past. Looking to see what else is out there that
people like.

Thanks

E

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zabbix

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eric clark wrote:

I'd like to ask the list what products people are using to monitor their
environments. By this I'm referring to datacenters, and other equipment.
Temperature, humidity, airflow, cameras, dry contacts, door sensors, leak
detection, all that sort of thing.

I've used Netbotz in the past. Looking to see what else is out there that
people like.

Thanks

E
  

Coming from a University environment... data center has all sorts of
different solutions, including some NetBotz. Leak detection and physical
plant/HVAC stuff is mostly "legacy" (bell and flashing lights) in the
Ops room. Latest project has been deploying Websensors
(InfraStructure monitoring solutions) distributed around the
room. We also have a few prototype boards, sort of like a netbotz
without the camera, that were done as a senior project for an EE student
a few years back... actually quite stable and useful.

In smaller TCs/ERs, i.e. anything one room with a few racks, we
generally either have a netbot plus whatever addon for the UPS or, if we
have a services machine deployed there (Linux box for dhcp/dns/remote
access) we use a Dalls One-Wire adapter with some sensors, accessed
through OWFS on that box and monitored in Nagios.

-J. Antman

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Hi Eric,

Also take a look at IT Watch Dogs at http://www.itwatchdogs.com/

Tony Patti
CIO
S. Walter Packaging Corp.
tony@swalter.com
phone: 215-676-8888
fax: 215-698-7119
http://www.swalter.com

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I'd like to ask the list what products people are using to monitor
their environments.

www.controlbyweb.com has some nifty stuff that we use extensively.

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I'd like to ask the list what products people are using to monitor their
environments. By this I'm referring to datacenters, and other equipment.
Temperature, humidity, airflow, cameras, dry contacts, door sensors, leak
detection, all that sort of thing.

I've used Netbotz in the past. Looking to see what else is out there that
people like.

Thanks

E

We've been using RoomAlert units (http://environmentmonitor.com/)
monitored by nagios via snmp. Multiple temp/humidity probes, power, flood,
etc. All graphed nicely by pnp4nagios.

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We're using Asentria units. They do temp/humidity monitored via snmp.

David

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We use both the ITWatchDogs MiniGoose and the NTI EnviroMux. Both provide similar feature sets, but the MiniGoose has a nicer web interface and is less expensive.

Eric Stockwell
Optic Fusion

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We have some Tripp Lite UPS units that have SNMP cards. You can add their ENVIROSENSE module for pretty cheap to get temperature and humidity. There are contacts for additional sensors as well.

-Randy

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Thanks for all the replies everyone.

Some good options, though I am surprised by how few options I'm finding that
have a good centralized management system. I have to deploy monitoring to a
bunch of sites spread around the world, centralized management is key.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

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Someone else mentioned Assentria, which we also use for our contact closure
alarms. We configure a north bound SNMP interface towards our central trap
management system (Vaonet).

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There's also DPS Telecom (http://www.dpstele.com).

Frank