USB Temperature Sensor

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USB Temperature Sensor

The USB Temperature Sensor can monitor the temperature (in °C). Hereby, a hardware sensor that is connected by USB will be used. You can get more information on the hardware sensor here.

The monitoring of temperature is an important factor to ensure the dependency of a server. This sensor allows notifications or direct counter actions before the temperature reaches a critical condition or the server is damaged.

The unit for the temperature is selected according to the regional settings of the current user. If the measurement system is set to "Metric", Celsius will be used. If the measurement system is set to "U.S.", Fahrenheit will be used. This also applies to the service. If notifications from the service use the wrong unit, the measurement system must be changed for the corresponding user. For system accounts, the regional settings can be used to transfer the settings of the current user to all system accounts.

Sensor Tasks

Test Sensor

Tests the current sensor settings.

Get Help

Opens the ServerSentinel online help for the current sensor.

Basic Settings

Name

The name of the sensor (max. 100 characters). Choose a meaningful name to clearly identify the sensor.

Sensor is Active

Toggles the sensor ON/OFF.

Check Interval

The interval or times at which which the sensor should perform its checks.

Simple

The sensor performs its checks every x time units, e.g. every 10 minutes.

Daily

The sensor performs its checks daily at one or more (max. 4) fixed times, e.g. daily at 0 and 12 o'clock.

Weekly

The sensor performs its checks at certain days of the weeks at one or more (max. 4) fixed times, e.g. monday to friday at 12 o'clock.

Monthly

The sensor performs its checks at certain days of the month at one or more (max. 4) fixed times, e.g. every 1st of the month at 12 o'clock.

Only check if this Sensor didn't fail

This sensor will only be checked, if the sensor in the drop down list didn't fail.

Further Information

Comment

Short additional information to the sensor (max. 255 characters).

Sensor Options

Selected Sensor

Select the sensor that, per USB, is to be used.

 

Meta Data Values

Data Value

Data Type

Description

Checktime

Date

The time the dataset has been created.

Exception Message

String

The message of the error if any occurred.

Response Time

Integer

The response time needed to perform the check.

Status

String

A status string that may contain arbitrary information that was collected by the sensor (max. 255 characters). Per default this value is empty.

Status Flag

Enum

The status of the sensor after the check has been performed.

Data Values

Data Value

Data Type

Description

Temperature

Double

The temperature the sensor retrieved from the hardware device.