From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 25 8:24:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D12F15182 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 08:24:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id RAA19235; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 17:10:32 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA52903; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 11:17:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199909250917.LAA52903@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: intpm in STABLE In-Reply-To: from "Chris D. Faulhaber" at "Sep 25, 1999 1:43: 2 am" To: jedgar@fxp.org (Chris D. Faulhaber) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 11:17:31 +0200 (CEST) Cc: insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Chris D. Faulhaber wrote ... > On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Ron Rosson wrote: > > > Thank you in replying so promptly. I look forward to seeing it get > > commited to the STABLE branch. It would be a dream come true to be able > > to see the temps internally of my servers without having to shutdown and > > take a look at it thru the bios. If it is not to much trouble or if you > > need someone to test patches. Please keep me in mind. > > > > On a side note, I managed to convince my boss of the potential benefit of > monitoring servers in this fashion. He has agreed to allow me to develop > a daemon (on company time) for monitoring and logging, BSD licensed even. > > Personally, I don't want to think about losing the cooling fans in a > server with 6 10k RPM U2W drives. :) That is exactly where you want your drives in an (possible external) enclosure with redundant power and redundant fans. The more expensive PC servers have redundancy too. Your average Asian 'tin can' case does not. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message