[SunHELP] Temp Sensor

[Tom Lieuallen]

> Greetings,
> 
> I recently had an AC failure in our machine room.  The room got pretty hot
> before I shut down my machines.  I did not get any high temp warnings, so it
> made me wonder when will the Sun's complain?
> 
> Also, this experience has motivated me to find some type of temperature
> sensor to hook up to a serial port and page me if the temp gets too warm.
> Anyone doing something like this?  If so, can you point me at a good
> product?
> 
> Thanks.

We have purchased some 'hot little therms', which you can find at
http://www.spiderplant.com.  There are plenty other devices like
the hot little therm (from other companies), but I liked the fact
that they gave the software (and source) away for free.  Seems like
a good old fashioned, small home business.  :-)  :-)

Anyway, I've got them plugged into suns, HPs, and even PCs running
win2k.  I used part of their software and added on some wrapper scripts
and tied it in to our network monitoring.

Tom Lieuallen
Oregon State University