Hardware monitoring

[jra at baylink.com (Jay Ashworth)]

> 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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