[tech] [committee] Temperature Monitoring in Server Room [repost]

[James Andrewartha]

Hi Melissa,

On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, Melissa Star wrote:

> Hi James,
> 
> > I am explicitly going to leave this for someone else to set up, my 
> > recommendation is a new VM, (although you could do a container) since it 
> > requires PHP 7.1.3 at a minimum.
> 
> Isn't UCC a do-ocracy?

Sure. Which is why I said it was my recommendation, and not something I 
was actually going to do myself. It is far better for a non-old-guard 
member to do this and take ownership of it. What form it takes is up to 
whoever actually does it, I was bringing my recommendation from 
Discord/IRC to the lists for posterity, since not everyone reads both.

> I'm sure there are more standard ways, for example, to dispense drinks or maintain club membership records.
> 
> And we could be using Microsoft Word or even OpenOffice to take minutes and SharePoint or perhaps OwnCloud to maintain records.
> 
> Except we don't. From what I've seen so far, where possible we use solutions made by UCC members, even if they are not technically superior, because they are ours.

We do whatever is done. Please do not let my suggestions act as stop 
energy.

> Leaving aside the fact that:
> 
> * You turned away from me and left me out of the decision making process that came out of my idea.

I will grant this, although I was responding more to Andrew's 
recommendation of Icinga than your suggestion of DIYing.

> * You suggested running system management tools in a VM because that would involve install PHP 7.x on the machine, and we've got stuff running on 5.x (note not all machines at UCC are VM hosts).

The LibreNMS server only runs on one machine (well in an environment the 
size of UCC). All the communication with hosts is done via SNMP or IPMI - 
we just need to install snmpd on the various servers we want to monitor. 
Switches already have SNMP, and most of our physical servers have IPMI. I 
suggest a VM for the server alone because UCC runs Debian in general, and 
there is no stable version of Debian with PHP >= 7.1.3, and so requires 
intalling from a third-party repository, which is best done in the 
isolation of a VM.

> * You don't mind us running PHP  5.x with all the resulting security risks

Debian stretch (the current stable) has 7.0, but not 7.1.

Thanks,

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