Re: Monitoring server sensors and triggering actions

[Adam McGreggor <lists@amyl.org.uk>]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:16:30AM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote:
> 	How do you shutdown a server if CPU hits
> critical temperatures?  Do you use a program?  Do
> you hack your own shell script?
> 
> 	We couldn't find a tool or service that
> would look to sensors and get some parameters,
> once limits are crossed a mail to sysadmins are
> sent and servers are shutdown for precaution.

In addition to lm-sensors, mentioned by others, monit
(<http://mmonit.com/monit/>) may be a useful
package to try. 

I'm quite impressed with it, so far.

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