Topic: Motherboard Temperature

[Berts]

Hi everyone,

I have a little and possibly stupid question... I'm using cacti to monitor my server, and i'm also using sysmon to do a similar work...
But i have a problem, i need to control the server temperature (just to show my boss that the server room needs cooling). does somebody know how to do it?

Any ideas will be wellcome.
Thanks and nice summer

[Michiel]

Ah, you want to cheat, don't you?

[Michiel]

Sorry, I hit th 'post' button instead of 'quote'

To finish my previous posting: If you keep the processor running at close to 100%, you'll see the temperature rise substantially. Run for example seti@home. That will use all spare CPU, without affecting other processes. http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/download.html

Of course you could switch off a fan or two, but that might give you more heat than you can stand

Michiel

[berts]

No, no, no...
i don't want to cheat or overheat the server... i just want to monito it's temperature because it's allocated in a small room near a big copy machine and the room's temperature is near 7ºC higher than the rest of the office...

so what i want is to plot the temperature as i plot the cpu activity and other things... is it possible?

[Michiel]

> No, no, no...
> i don't want to cheat or overheat the server... i just want

Ah, sorry for falsely accusing you

> so what i want is to plot the temperature as i plot the cpu
> activity and other things... is it possible?

If you've already installed sysmon, you only need to add lm_sensors (http://www.wellsi.com/sme/lms/lm_sensors.html).  

You don't need to install the server-manager panel as described at the end of this howto. The temperatures will already be plotted in de "System Monitor", which is much nicer as this "Sensor information" panel.

Regards,
Michiel

[Ian Wells]

Michiel,

I completely agree that it is better to see the temperature via Sysmon, and this has made my server-manager panel superfluous. I'll update the page later to reflect this.

For people who have not installed sysmon you can see screenshots of the typical information at http://www.wellsi.com/sme/sysmon/sysmon.html

Ian Wells