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
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 (http://www.eesensors.com/WebsensorEM01B.html) 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 -- Jason Antman System Administrator Rutgers University OIT Central Systems & Services / NetOps Office: 732-445-6363 Cell: 732-983-7256 jantman@oit.rutgers.edu
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 -----Original Message----- From: eric clark [mailto:cabenth@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 10:06 AM To: NANOG list Subject: Environmental monitoring options 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
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.
We're using Asentria units. They do temp/humidity monitored via snmp. David Sent from my iPhone On Sep 27, 2011, at 10:05 AM, eric clark <cabenth@gmail.com> 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
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 On 09/27/2011 07:05 AM, 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
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 ----- Original Message -----
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
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.
On 28/09/11 07:53 -0700, eric clark wrote:
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.
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). -- Dan White
There's also DPS Telecom (http://www.dpstele.com). Frank -----Original Message----- From: eric clark [mailto:cabenth@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 9:06 AM To: NANOG list Subject: Environmental monitoring options 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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