Lightweight temperature monitoring on Windows Server 2008

Solution 1:

I'm a big fan of PRTG Network Monitor from www.paessler.com. Its a packaged Windows version of MRTG (or at least inspired by it), and does all sorts of useful data collection, graphing, notification, etc. Its inexpensive and has saved my butt.

I also use an environmental monitor from IT Watchdogs. I think I paid $400 bucks for it, and I have at least one in every server room I manage. I knew fairly quickly when the AC went out in my remote office and was able to alert them to take action.

Solution 2:

Motherboard Monitor is a long time fave of mine.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/Motherboard-Monitor.shtml

Solution 3:

You might look into Cacti. I haven't played with the version that runs on windows but it was very easy to set up on linux and is successfully monitoring many SNMP sources in our data center. Environmental monitors, Cisco Switches, and a couple Dell 2950s.