Re: Monitoring server sensors and triggering actions

[Gavin Westwood <debian-isp@solutium.co.uk>]

On 2010/3/24 Felipe Augusto van de Wiel wrote:

How do you shutdown a server if CPU hits
critical temperatures? Do you use a program? Do
you hack your own shell script?

On 24/03/10 04:49, Eden Caldas replied:

Use lm-sensors. It runs localy and you
can create a script that runs as a cron job that checks the output of
lm-sensors and shutdown if you get high temps and stuff.

Further to this, you might be interested in the following links:

http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2009-May/025917.html

http://cahbojonegoro.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/cpu-temperature-monitor-script/

And, while not directly answering your question, this is a neat way to monitor the temps in the rack:

http://www.hoppie.nl/tempsens/

Hope that helps.

Gavin

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