rbjtech 4170 Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 So I just had a fan stop working today in one of my disk enclosures - luckily, my HDD Monitoring software (HDD Sentinel) picked it up as a warning disk overheat before any damage was done and I received the Alert via email, but it would have been nice to pickup the fan failure itself (rather than the consequential overheat..) and get a txt or whatapp'd for the event. What do you guys use for hardware monitoring ? HDD Sentinel is nice but it can't sent txt and any push notifications and can only do HDD's .. Alerted @ 17:51 - Fixed by 17:59 - Whew ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sooty234 266 Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Does PRTG provide that kind of monitoring? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Netdata for system wide monitoring. Or you can roll your own w/ hddtemp and pushover in a pretty simple cron/bash script if all you care about is hard drive info. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceboy 2484 Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 PRTG can send emails based on that sort of failure 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pir8radio 1289 Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Splunk, PRTG, this one might still be free, pretty basic but sends alerts: https://www.hwinfo.com/about-software/ Also some hardware (servers) have built in hardware to monitor hardware... For example, my server has an on-board IPMI that gives some basic info/alerting/logging: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbjtech 4170 Posted May 29, 2020 Author Share Posted May 29, 2020 I'm going to take a look at some of these. I have a basic syslog server receiving alerts on all my devices now, so I may expand on that to make it do something with the alerts rather than just log them .. haha. The failure made me realise that a £5 fan is cooling £800 worth of disk (!) so need to also think about cooling redundancy … it never ends Thanks all ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammy 735 Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 I've been using CPUID's Hardware Monitor for a couple of decades now. I never even thought to look elsewhere. HWInfo looks pretty good.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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