What temperature monitoring software is avalible for Server 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2?

Question

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 know of something that'll work?

Would love something that will send notifications when certain conditions/thresholds are met, but not necessary as I can remote connect to them and check periodically.

Solution 1

I use Nagios, and it has plugins for all sort of services it can monitor. It also works with thresholds. Here is an example of a plugin that can monitor temperatures of a HP Proliant: Check_hpasm

Solution 2

eSensors have small hardware devices that can monitor server room temperature. Those devices can be monitored by Nagios, PA Server Monitor and others.

Solution 3

If you need to monitoring a single server you can try with SpeedFan or RealTemp that work also on standard os, for monitoring server from a centralized consolle nagios or solarwinds are more suitable.

Comments

[John Gardeniers]

As the ability to even be able to get the temperature from the system will be system dependent it's worth mentioning the make and model of the servers, or at least the motherboards.

[John Gardeniers]

And how does the temperature sensor in a UPS tell you the temperature in a server?

[Jonesome Reinstate Monica]

It tells you the temp of the air next to the server, which is what we normally measure....