[tech] [committee] Temperature Monitoring in Server Room [repost]

[James Andrewartha]

Apologies for top-posting, but per #ucc my recommendation for low-effort 
monitoring is LibreNMS. It is very SNMP based but there are extensions for 
things like SMART, and it can also get environmental data from IPMI 
controllers. It can export to Graphite and be viewed with Grafana if 
someone can be bothered, but the default webui is fine to start with. 

https://docs.librenms.org/Extensions/Applications/#smart
https://docs.librenms.org/Extensions/Metric-Storage/

I am explicitly going to leave this for someone else to set up, my 
recommendation is a new VM, (although you could do a container) since it 
requires PHP 7.1.3 at a minimum.

On Mon, 18 Mar 2019, Andrew Williams wrote:

> On 2019-03-18 9:58 PM, David Adam wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Mar 2019, Melissa Star wrote:
> >> I just realised - if you have smartmontools installed on linux machines,
> >> each hard drive or SSD will provide its “Airflow Temperature”, which I
> >> can extract via script.
> >>
> >> I'm thinking of centralising this for all the servers I run, and
> >> collecting the data to chart, having a display at home that gives me
> >> live info for all machines under my control.
> > 
> > We used to do this on all the servers, but I think evil is the only one
> > still running:
> 
> Rather than rolling your own temperature monitoring scripts and code to 
> display them, I highly recommend installing Nagios/Icinga or equivalent. 
> That will monitor network services (web, database, NTP, SSH, etc), host 
> state, disk space, rack and internal temperatures, voltages, fan speeds, 
> etc, on tens or hundreds of machines.
> 
> Here's the Icinga2 setup for the MWA telescope - it's using a mix of 
> built-in and third-party plugins for the sort of things you'd see in a 
> normal server room, plus custom plugins to monitor the actual telescope 
> hardware and software health.
> 
> http://icinga.mwa128t.org/icingaweb2/monitoring/list/hostgroups
> 
> (username 'guest', password 'mwa-guest')
> 
> The performance data (raw values from every sensor or measurement) is 
> automatically piped from icinga to a Whisper/Carbon backend, and we use 
> Graphite to view the time series plots:
> 
> http://graphite.mwa128t.org/dashboard
> 
> You can either go to Dashboard/Finder and choose one of our pre-saved 
> plot layouts (please don't change them, or save new ones), or drill down 
> through the monitoring point tree using the top half of the page 
> (starting with icinga2. then going down through a hostname, then a 
> service on that host, until you reach a ....value leaf node, and add a 
> graph showing that value to the dashboard). I usually prefer to use the 
> Tree interface instead - go to Dashboard/Configure UI, then choose 'Tree 
> (left nav)'.
> 
> Andrew
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