Due to a problem in the air conditioning of our customer, the temperature of the computer room sometimes rises to unacceptable levels. A few weeks ago, this happened again and the temperature reached 42 C in the computer room and over 60 C inside the computers. There was an alarm sent out to a monitoring company, but they completely missed it. It took four System Admins a good part of the night to get the system working again. We decided to install the Soft Thermometer and SCOM software, because it attaches to UNIX systems.
Staff can now login from home and see live temperature readings.
They don't have to drive to the office if they suspect a problem. Also, we get advanced warnings on our GSM telephones. People from the U.S. can now also monitor our computer room through their intranet connection. Overheating is not going to happen anymore. Installing SCOM and the Soft Thermometer and integrating it into PerfGraph took less than an hour.