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Groundwork Monitor

Temperature monitoring with GWCE

I’ll show you how you can monitor temperatures using groundwork monitor open source edition a one wire interface and some 1 wire temperature sensors.

Requirements:

  • A 1-wire serial interface, I use The Link RJ45 version
  • Groundwork open source monitor installed, I installed it on Ubuntu 6.06
  • digitemp, apt-get install digitemp should do the trick

I mainly followed this guide but there are a few modifications needed for gwmce.

When making the symlink you should use:

ln -s /usr/bin/digitemp_DS9097U /usr/local/bin/digitemp

The U version is the correct one for the link45

I added chmod 777 $STATEFILE to the end of the cron script so that nagios would be able to read it, this is a bit dirty and it would be better to change the owner to whoever nagios is running under I suppose.

The nagios plugin is here and this should be copied to /usr/local/groundwork/nagios/libexec

All that is left to do is to add a check_temperature command in groundwork monitor but I’ll leave that as an exercise for you.