Environmental monoitoring

[Michael P. Brininstool]

David Fletcher wrote:
> My employer wants to do environmental monitoring and logging of
> temperature and humidity in an instrument calibration room.
> 
> I'm looking at an environmental monitor called the Sensatronics EM1 made
> by a company called Open Extra. It plugs into a network outlet and
> operates with SNMP.
> 
> What I'm thinking might be possible is to have a script running on one
> of the Linux boxes as a cron job, to periodically interrogate the
> environmental monitor and add date, time, temperature and humidity to a
> log file each time.
> 
> Has anybody had experience of doing this, please?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dave Fletcher
> 

MRTG is a must.