admin console in WHS
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Rick,
I don't think you're the only one who's concerned about temps. For the most part, though, I think the concern is misplaced. WHS isn't a fire-breathing monster of a desktop gaming system, overclocked through the roof and watercooled. If you build your server out of decent quality parts, and you don't try to push the hardware to it's limits, you should have no temperature problems. If you push the hardware, well, you're sacrificing the cornerstones of a server, home or otherwise: stability, reliability, longevity.
As for what others are doing to monitor temperatures, I'd say probably what you're doing: running Speedfan. That's assuming their motherboard supports temperature monitoring. (Mine doesn't, actually. It's the cheapest POS I could get at NewEgg when the MB I was going to use went belly-up. IIRC it was under $40.) Frankly, I don't know why you would feel the need to monitor temperatures for more than a couple of days, just to see that they stayed sane. After that point, you know that the cooling is doing it's job.
Those photos that you wish to secure? If they're important to you, make sure you keep copies of them separate from WHS. Beta means bugs, and it's always possible that the next release (probably RC1, though maybe a fresh beta if we're lucky) will require a "slash and burn" approach because of some basic change in Drive Extender. (This actually happened to the Beta 1 participants, I understand.) Even if WHS was on the shelves, I'd say that.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket, no matter how strong that basket seems to be.
Please keep asking questions (even inept ones ). Let us know your success stories. keep us apprised of bugs you find. In other words, participate in the community.
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(Moved to the Suggestions forum because this isn't a software issue or question.)
You aren't really asking a question, Rick. You're saying "I want to monitor temperatures on WHS, so I'm using Speedfan to do that. Because I'm not sure how to configure it (or I'm not willing to invest the time), I'm not using Speedfan's built-in email notification feature. So I'm using Remote Desktop instead."
I can pretty well promise you that Microsoft is never going to expose temperature and fan speed monitoring through the operating system, if that's what you're looking for. Those tools have to get far too close to the hardware to do their job, and the first time Microsoft gets it wrong and someone burns up a CPU, the press will scream. If what you're really after is that you want a way to see this information in the console, well, the WHS SDK is out there now, and I know you can get information out of Speedfan, so there's got to be an API available there too. If it's an important issue to you, you might want to consider digging in.
And there's always making suggestions on Connect. If you go that route, don't forget to post a link back here so others with similar concerns can vote. -
Rick,
I don't think you're the only one who's concerned about temps. For the most part, though, I think the concern is misplaced. WHS isn't a fire-breathing monster of a desktop gaming system, overclocked through the roof and watercooled. If you build your server out of decent quality parts, and you don't try to push the hardware to it's limits, you should have no temperature problems. If you push the hardware, well, you're sacrificing the cornerstones of a server, home or otherwise: stability, reliability, longevity.
As for what others are doing to monitor temperatures, I'd say probably what you're doing: running Speedfan. That's assuming their motherboard supports temperature monitoring. (Mine doesn't, actually. It's the cheapest POS I could get at NewEgg when the MB I was going to use went belly-up. IIRC it was under $40.) Frankly, I don't know why you would feel the need to monitor temperatures for more than a couple of days, just to see that they stayed sane. After that point, you know that the cooling is doing it's job.
Those photos that you wish to secure? If they're important to you, make sure you keep copies of them separate from WHS. Beta means bugs, and it's always possible that the next release (probably RC1, though maybe a fresh beta if we're lucky) will require a "slash and burn" approach because of some basic change in Drive Extender. (This actually happened to the Beta 1 participants, I understand.) Even if WHS was on the shelves, I'd say that. Don't put all your eggs in one basket, no matter how strong that basket seems to be.
Please keep asking questions (even inept ones ). Let us know your success stories. keep us apprised of bugs you find. In other words, participate in the community.
