Monitoring ESX Temperature

[RajuVCP]

Hi All,

Can we monitor ESX Server Temperature and configure alarm for it, by setting it up to certain Temperature point.

Regards

Raju Gunnal

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[idle-jam]

check this out, on the temperature sensor http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/hwhm41_technote.pdf

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Many modern servers have this capability built into their firmware and you can monitor the temperature using their tools as well as build your own set of tools. I use the internal HP Monitors plus an external APC humidity and temparature monitor. For alerts I use HPSIM for the HP ones and for APC, I have not built anything yet.

You may want to check if you have anything already in place to monitor a datacenter's temperature as well. Many do and it is generally external from vCenter.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

Communities Moderator, VMware vExpert,

Author: VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security,VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise 2nd Edition

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[AndreTheGiant]

As written by Edward, most server has temperuture (and also power consuption) sensors.

And most management UPS too.

Andre

[RajuVCP]

Thanks all for the reply,

Actually i was looking from the vCenter point, wherein i can  configure Temperature monitoring for the all the EXS host available.

I can see the default alarm, for power , temperature , harddisk many more..

Does configuring here and configuring Temperature monitoring in HP/Dell Hardware monitoring tool will differe, are they both provide acurate information.

Regards

Raju Gunnal

http://www.tech2solution.com/forum

[AndreTheGiant]

In vCenter you have a generic "healt status" and you cannot trigger on temperature level (for example). To do this you must use SNMP or (maybe) scripting.

Andre