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Using grep/regex to get array of temperatures

I'm trying to setup some basic temperature monitoring on my server - (without using third-party tools). I've installed a couple of libraries on my linux box to get sensors working on my server, and ...
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lm_sensors reports wrong temperature on Supermicro X8DT3?

Here's my system info: System Information Manufacturer: Supermicro Product Name: X8DT3 Version: 1234567890 Serial Number: 1234567890 UUID: 3EFC338F-2038-F257-3B5E-0025902BF938 ...
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Is it possible that hard drive temperature reading is inaccurate by a large margin?

I have a 3 - 4 year old 250GB WD hard drive that has shown abnormally high temperature readings ever since I bought it. The temperatures were so much higher than expected that I ended up attributing ...
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linux kernel 3.0.0 i7 CPU overheats and locks up

The server with i7 CPU (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz) under linux kernel 3.0.0 (3.0.0-10-server) generally works properly, but when it is put under heavy load - it overheats (as shown by ...
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What temperature monitoring software is avalible for Server 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2?

I don't have much experience working with servers and I need to monitor temperatures for several servers (remotely). I use hwmonitor for my laptops but it doesn't support server hardware. Does anyone ...
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Monitor Dell thermal sensors in FreeBSD?

I'm trying to remotely monitor temperature sensors within two Dell PowerEdge 6850's. I have a fear that the building we are in is turning off the air conditioning on the weekends to save power, which ...
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Maximum safe hard drive temperature?

I have two new-ish 1TB hard drives in my server, both running at 38 degrees C at the moment. Should I be worried?
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When to add air conditioners [closed]

Possible Duplicate: What is the correct temperature for a server room? We're a small company with a 200 foot back room we use as a server room. It has no fans and no ventilation. Right ...
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OSX: Watching tempeture trends based on Ambient Tempeture

So I noticed a temperature monitor cleverly labeled "Ambient." Knowing that the sensor is inside my computer, I can get a decent temperature check on my overly hot dorm room if I check it as soon as I ...
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PowerShell Script to Gather System Temperature

Does anyone have a PowerShell Script they use to gather system temperature information? This is not to replace external sensors, just another way to monitor the health of a system from a temperature ...
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Standard Operating Temperature Range for Xserve PSUs

We use Lithium for network monitoring. For Xserves, by default it throws an alert when the PSU temperature goes above 65°C. Lately, we've been getting multiple alerts a day with the temperature ...
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Server Room Temperature Control - Does anyone have a similar setup?

Our Server room is located in the middle of our building and has no access to a window or outside ventilation. I had a quote done by a local heating/air conditioning company to install a room specific ...
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Server Temperature Logging

As a bit of background, over the weekend the main air conditioning system for our server room went down. As I was out of town I was unable to stop in and check to make sure the auxiliary system was ...
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Computer controlled winch

It was a long time coming but I've just had AC installed in my server room. I've also purchased a MiniGoose II from ITWatchDogs which I can't say enough about. So I'm covered by cooling, and I'll be ...
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How to monitor the temperature of a switch?

Is there any application that give me the temperature of each switches on my network?
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How to check CPU/HDD temperature under XenServer 5.6?

Is it possible to check the temperature of the CPU and locally attached SATA/IDE HDDs under XenServer 5.6? Can I install lm-sensors?
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LM Sensors always returning same (invalid) value for one temp sensor

I am trying to monitor the temp sensors on a server, and plot them using Cacti. I have lm-sensors installed and working correctly. For example, here is the output from sensors: % sensors ...
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Monitor temperatures in a PC

I'm experimenting with different locations and fans in my server. Whats a good program to monitor temperatures?
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Hot video card in server

Not sure if this belongs here or Superuser (I looked at Superuser -- suspect there are more hardware gurus here). I have a server that sits in a cabinet. It's connected to a small screen that is ...
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How to monitor the temperature of a HP Procurve 3500 switch via SNMP

I am attempting to poll the temperature of an HP ProCurve 3500YL switch remotely using SNMP. Looking at this MIB, it appears that the following OIDs: hpCpuTemperature ...
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How can I monitor a Smart-UPS 2200 in PRTG?

This UPS is connected via a serial cable to a server. I am trying to get the temperature readings off of the sensor that is connected to the UPS and get them in PRTG. We were able to do this in the ...
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SNMP-capable temperature probes

I'm looking for a SNMP temperature monitoring solution to put into my racks. Idealy this thingy would be an ethernet device with SNMP capability. I'd like to put two of these probes as top of rack and ...
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fedora halt - not sure why

Got a brand new server (IBM x3500) yesterday, installed Fedora 12 on it and thought we'd run some code to see how it performs. After around 7 hours of running, the system seems to have halted. The ...
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LSI MegaRaid - get HDD temperature

Is there any way to get a drive temperature using MegaCLI or any other utility? Like "tw_cli /cx/px show temperature" in 3ware. OS: Solaris x86.
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Hard freezes and reboots when compiling

One of our workstations has begun to freeze or reset under some circunstances. We can reproduce this in both Linux and Windows so it's most likely a hardware issue. The freezes most usually happen ...
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Nagios & Temperature

I'm currently running Nagios 3 on Linux, with Windows clients using NSClient++. The Windows clients (8) will be put into a hot humid environment. I have all the basic checks working for CPU, RAM, etc ...
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automatic get server temperature via HP iLO

I have a couple of HP servers in 2 offices. They have iLO interfaces and i can read the temperature from there. How can i read this temperature automaticaly over the network ? does iLO have any sort ...
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Lightweight temperature monitoring on Windows Server 2008

I'm working for a small organization, and I'm currently looking for a quick and easy way to monitor server temperature (Possibly graphing it, though having an emailed warning would be o.k.) I'm ...
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Need temperature readings from a live CD/USB

I have a laptop that is sometimes restarting and I want to check if it is overheating. It is an Intel dual core laptop and it doesn't have the temperature sensor readings as an option in the BIOS ...
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Monitoring server room temperature

I have a small server room with its own AC unit. Recently, the AC died, and the temperature increased from 70 F to > 90 F. We rarely go in this room, so I was lucky that someone happened to notice ...
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What is the recommended temperature range for a hard drive?

What is the best temp to keep harddrives running in? I have harddrives that keep failing due to the temp being to high.
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What is the Best Way to Monitor Server Temperature?

I need to be able to monitor the temperature of a couple of servers remotely. Does anyone know of any free/cheap software that will monitor the server temp and email it or at least output it so that ...
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How do you compute the AC capacity needed for a server room?

We've got a small server room ( approximately 600 square feet in area ), and three partially-filled racks of servers, switches, et cetera. What's the best-practice way of computing the AC capacity ...
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How to check temperature of Mobo/CPU in OS X on intel iMac

I have an intel iMac that I think is overheating. Is there a program that I can run in OS X that will give me the readings of the built in temperature sensors?
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How to correctly apply thermal compound to the CPU?

Every now and then I have to work with hardware, be it assembling a new box, or just cleaning it a little bit, and I always have this question: how should I apply the thermal compound to the CPU? When ...
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What is the correct temperature for a server room?

When I was working in our server room, I noticed that it was very cold. I know that the server room has to be cold to offset the heat of the servers, but perhaps it is TOO cold. What is an ...
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Forcing machine to run at a certain temperature

This isn't entirely a programming question but, how would one make a computer run at an inputted temperature? The machines will be running Linux for a heatsink design project.