[181050] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hardware monitoring
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sun Jun 14 20:39:07 2015
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Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 20:36:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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> I know this is slightly off-topic, but since it's still related to the
> list, I thought I'd give it a try. I am wondering what systems are out
> there (open source, preferably) for data collection and processing of
> hardware health data (temperature, CPU clock, fan speeds, etc).
> Ideally brand agnostic and location agnostic as well.
>
> I know of Cacti, but it would require SNMP enabled devices AFAIK, so
> room/generator/misc monitors wouldn't necessarily be included.
You're going to find that the most commonly recommended solution, I think,
will be proxy SNMP, and let your SNMP monitor log it; there are *lots* of
reasons not to want to run two infrastructures for that.
Cheers,
- jra
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