[SunHELP] Temp Sensor

[P Nutton]

> From: "Tim Longo" <tlongo at avaya.com>
> 
> 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.

I use Big Brother (www.bb4.com) which is a system and network monitoring
tool. It is easy to write add-in scripts and I have written one to measure
the psu and board temperatures using parsed output from:

/usr/platform/`/usr/bin/uname -m`/sbin/prtdiag -v
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Paul Nutton, SysAdmin, High Performance Computing, AWE plc
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