I apologize to my adoring fans (both of you) for the lack of posting.  I’m in the middle of moving, buying a new house, selling my current house, getting a mortgage, etc.  I’ve up until 11:30 nearly every night filling out forms and going through red tape.  Don’t get me started on getting money from a 401k!  Anyway…

I got in this morning, and a coworker was telling me that the data center’s HVAC was crippled due to an oil leak, and it was 90F in there.  D’oh!  It wasn’t quite that high, but it was warm.  Luckily, all of our network gear is on the end of the rows with AC, so we’re safe, but it got me thinking about monitoring temperature of our 6500s via SNMP.  I’ve done it via Cacti, but I never really looked how to do it manually.