Ravica Blog » snmp temperature monitoring http://www.ravica.com/blog Environmental monitoring solutions that just work Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:32:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 SNMP Temperature Monitoring http://www.ravica.com/blog/sensorprobes/snmp-temperature-monitoring/ http://www.ravica.com/blog/sensorprobes/snmp-temperature-monitoring/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:34:14 +0000 Mike Allen http://www.ravica.com/blog/?p=827 Whenever we buy anything for the company, I always ask if it can be connected to the network and monitored with SNMP. For example, when a new HVAC system was installed in our building, I asked if it was going to be SNMP manageable. The contractor looked at me like I was speaking Greek. Out of curiosity, I decided to search on the idea and found this company called Chipkin that makes an SNMP gateway, as does the s4group.

Why do I care about SNMP?
I care about SNMP because I want to manage everything from a central location. We use MyView in Scrutinizer. From a central location, we can monitor the network, the call center and, if we wanted to, the coffee pot.

BTW: Fugoo is considering a marketing plan for their network connected coffee maker, however, it lacks support for SNMP and the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol.

Come to find out, the best idea for coffee pot monitoring is a simple web camera.

SNMP Temperature Monitoring
We monitor temperature in our data rooms, call center, conference rooms and offices, and we do it all with our temperature sensors. We even put an airflow sensor in our HVAC air intake to monitor when the blower came on. I then polled for the SNMP information with Denika and produced historical trends with the data.

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Summary
When we’re looking at hardware, equipment that supports SNMP generally makes it to our short list. All of our equipment supports SNMP.

- Mike

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