Monday, January 25, 2010

Re: Server Room Environment Monitor?

A cheap way we do it is to install the sensor in our APC Smart-UPS unit.

Look up: UPS Network Management Card 2 with Environmental Monitoring

This product has a temp sensor to go along with it.


Brian Lee
Manlius Pebble Hill School

> From: Barrett Keziah <bkeziah@ravenscroft.org>
> Reply-To: A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:16:10 -0500
> To: <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
> Subject: Server Room Environment Monitor?
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> Hi All,
>
>
>
> Last night we lost the air conditioning unit in our server room and were
> lucky to have caught it early enough this morning to prevent any major
> damage. While we've never had a temp sensor in the room before, we've
> decided it's time to go that route and were wondering what others might
> be using to monitor the temp/humidity/etc. in their server rooms?
>
>
>
> I'd really like some kind of hardware sensor that can send automatic
> emails/phone calls/etc. when a designated threshold has been crossed.
> Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
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>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Barrett
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