and they are adequate. The best ones I have bought and used are from AVTech.
The great thing about them (and others out there) is if you have an existing
monitoring system that supports SNMP, these can be integrated in (Nagios,
etc.)
I just had the basic one. They call it for 4E now. This was a must for me as
our AC unit for the server room was really the wrong unit for the size of
the room and did an external air mix which was a mess when it was cold or
super moist outside. The unit would freeze up and stuff would go bad.
I placed one of the sensors towards the bottom of the server rack and one at
the top so I could get a good sense of range in the room. I just had the
temp sensors, but you can get moisture, smoke, etc.
http://avtech.com/Products/Room_Alert_Monitors/Room_Alert_4E.htm
There are a lot of good solutions out there now, this is just one of them I
know I was very happy happy with.
Jonathan
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Jonathan Mergy <jmergy@lwhs.org>
Director Of Technology
Lick-Wilmerding High School
755 Ocean Ave, SF CA 94112
P:415.585.1725 x365
http://www.lwhs.org/tech
> From: Barrett Keziah <bkeziah@ravenscroft.org>
> Reply-To: ISED-L <ISED-L@listserv.syr.edu>
> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:16:10 -0500
> To: ISED-L <ISED-L@listserv.syr.edu>
> Subject: Server Room Environment Monitor?
>
> 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!
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Barrett
>
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