Monitoring HDD temperature with MRTG
I complain a lot about the weather in Bs As, so here is a little script to get the values inside a hard disk on a linux server... On the average, the temperature seems like a really, really torrid summer day around here, say towards the end of December.
In order to get this little script up & you'll need to have the hddtemp
The shell script, pretty, pretty simple:
#!/bin/sh
## mrtg-hddtemp.sh
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
DISK='/dev/hdc'
uptime | cut -c 2-
hddtemp ${DISK} | awk '{print $4}'
# EoF #
And the snip from the mrtg.cfg file:
Target[local_hddtemp]: `/usr/local/etc/scripts/dataGathering/mrtg-hddtemp.sh`
Options[local_hddtemp]: nopercent,gauge,noinfo,nobanner,noi,nolegend
Title[local_hddtemp]: HDD temperature
PageTop[local_hddtemp]: HDD temperature
MaxBytes[local_hddtemp]: 100000
YLegend[local_hddtemp]: Degrees
ShortLegend[local_hddtemp]:
LegendO[local_hddtemp]: Cent:
Legend2[local_hddtemp]: HDD temperature
WithPeak[local_hddtemp]: wmy
Legend4[local_hddtemp]: Max HDD temperature
Labels: hardware, Heat, Linux, Monitoring
posted by hictio at 7:42 PM
6 Comments:
Hi,
It seems nice.. although it gives me an error
2008-08-05 13:35:21: ERROR: Target[local_hddtemp][_IN_] ' $target->[0]{$mode} ' evaluated to 'NaN' instead of a number
Script itself works and returns temp.
Hi,
Yeah, forgot to mention that, but, what I usually do, once all the mrtg.cfg has been tested, and it is producing such magnificent graphs is that I redirect the cron's output to /dev/null, just in case something goes awful wrong, say, a Saturday afternoon, and on op of the Nagios (or what ever alarms) you start to get an email every 5 minutes.
Hi,
you can use "hddtemp -n" to just get an integer of the temperature.
Thanks, Sebastian!
Nevertheless, I'll still redirect the cron's output to /dev/null (once tested, that is)
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"hddtemp --numeric ${DISK}" instead of "hddtemp ${DISK} | awk '{print $4}'" works well and without an error message.
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