That is the "Nagios" endorsed sensor. Mmmmmmmm... Nagios.
-Charles

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Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:17 PM
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Subject: Re: Machine room air temperature sensor for Linux?

Brian Bartholomew wrote:
> Occasionally the chilled water goes out in my machine room/closet.
> Today I have an old Sun with an internal air temp device that sends my
> pager mail. I'd like to decommission that Sun, and replace the air
> temp monitoring function with something else.
>
> I have not been successful getting lm_sensors working under several
> versions of Linux.
>
> Does anyone know of an inexpensive external temperature sensor with a
> USB interface? Stuff comes up on google, but I'd prefer to know of a
> model that's inexpensive and already seen to work.
>
> Brian
>

I have heard good things about these.

http://www.eesensors.com/websensor.html

-James