Server room temperature alerts via SMS/phone?

d_brennen · 23 May 2017 at 08:35

Hi All,

Had a bit of a near miss on Saturday night. The AC in one of the server rooms threw a wobbly and turned off. Luckily enough, I happened to see the emails from the hosts and SAN complaining at about midnight, by the time I got there the room itself was about 50c and everything had shut down except the switches ('ard ******* they are). Close call, Monday morning would have been a bundle of fun.

At the moment I am exploring options for SMS and phone alerts and have found a couple of GSM devices - does anyone have any experience of these?

Armageus · 23 May 2017 at 08:54

Personally just rely on email for this - have a separate email account that I just include in the distribution group that our servers, upses etc are set to email. Have this added to my personal phone and had no issues with emails.

If you after actual SMS messages etc may be easier to look at one of the online email->SMS gateways e.g. something like http://smsglobal.com/email-to-sms/
then you can just add the phone number as an email address.

d_brennen · 23 May 2017 at 09:08

Thanks. Issue is that with a young family and active social life, email in general tends to get missed at the weekend and it was only that I was looking for something else that I saw it. I'm fairly protective of my time with regards to work as previously worked in a small startup which was very pervasive... If it isn't on fire or about to be I'm not interested

In cases like this a phone call would be welcome though

Caged · 23 May 2017 at 09:35

Hook your email alerting up to https://aql.com/products/messaging/email-to-sms

d_brennen · 23 May 2017 at 10:27

Caged said:
Hook your email alerting up to https://aql.com/products/messaging/email-to-sms

Thanks, looks good, have set up a call with them today, will probably demo it to see. Do you use aql Caged?

Caged · 23 May 2017 at 19:05

Did do ages ago with a PAYG account, couldn't really fault it. You might want also want to look at https://aql.com/products/messaging/email-to-speech since a text for on-call isn't really ideal if you need something that can wake you up.

clocka · 23 May 2017 at 21:35

http://cpc.farnell.com/sensormetrix/argon-100/temperature-monitor-gsm/dp/RF00637

Use one of these at work, works a treat. Can set temperature range alerting, custom text in the SMS, and can even text the device whenever you want and get a reply telling you the temperature.

Felix · 24 May 2017 at 12:10

I use an AVtech room alert with a GSM modem on a PC which sends text alerts, and also emails or will shutdown machines.

Steveocee · 24 May 2017 at 12:58

Ubiquiti mFi. Has room temperature, humidity and you can add motion sensors as well. Can be set to email out on events such as temperature above X or humidity above X.

I set mine for alert on motion when I'm not about.

Caged · 24 May 2017 at 14:24

Geist Watchdogs are great as well

Yaayuh! · 24 May 2017 at 15:33

I have one of these: http://www.cometsystem.com/products...thermometer-with-ethernet-interface/reg-T0510

Simple to set up and use.

ZedPowered · 24 May 2017 at 21:33

jakarta do a good alerting system. temp, power loss and sparky loss alerting.

snakefood · 2 Jun 2017 at 16:59

clocka said:
http://cpc.farnell.com/sensormetrix/argon-100/temperature-monitor-gsm/dp/RF00637

Use one of these at work, works a treat. Can set temperature range alerting, custom text in the SMS, and can even text the device whenever you want and get a reply telling you the temperature.

Wow, these actually look pretty good, really nice price as well. Think I'll be adding one to my server room next week.

Cheers

Caged · 2 Jun 2017 at 20:03

The price seems excessive unless the SMS element of it is important to you, and it only monitors temperature. I tend to just order the APC network card with the temperature sensor if the place I want to monitor is having a UPS, but these are my go-to for standalone environment sensors:

http://www.geistglobal.com/products/monitor/environmental-monitors