CPU temperature monitoring in a cluster

[Troy Hakala]

You can use ipmitool to get the temperature and ganglia's gmetric to  
put the values into ganglia. This requires that you run ipmitool +  
gmetric every so often on the server itself, which is not as good as  
polling it over the network. But the ganglia developers promise to  
allow you (in a future version) to specify a host for gmetric  
explicitly... this will allow you to poll IPMI across the network  
from a single host that updates ganglia for each host you're  
monitoring, which will not impact the servers at all.

On Jun 8, 2006, at 1:46 PM, Matt Domsch wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 04:27:02PM -0400, Thomas H Dr Pierce wrote:
>>    Dear Folks,
>>
>>    I have a RHEL3 cluster of PE 1750, PE 1850 and and head node of  
>> a PE 2650.
>>    I am using Ganglia to monitor usage. I'd like to add the  
>> gmetric script
>>    that monitors CPU  temperature as well.
>>
>>    Should I install lm_sensors?  Is there a better way?
>
> Not lm_sensors, but each of these systems provide temperature data via
> IPMI.  There should be ganglia tools that can poll this information
> from IPMI.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
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