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Good questions.
What do they have to do with log server?

You may want to look on the exchange.nagios.org site for plugins. Typically you'd use SNMP traps and/or queries.

Hi @adamsmithad, thanks for reaching out.

I moved this topic to Nagios XI, since it has (in my opinion) the best support for Nagios Core monitoring out of our current product suite. Hopefully the topic can get more visibility here.

Here is a thread that might help get you started Enable PDU monitoring on Nagios

Hey @adamsmithad:

You may be able to monitor these things via SNMP. This will depend on whether the device supports SNMP and provides an interface for these attributes.

The rough approach:
1. Find Mfr product MIBs files (SNMP management information base files) to determine if the desired attributes are available via SNMP, and which OIDs (Object IDs) will retrieve the data.
2. Enable and configure SNMP on the device if it isn't already functioning
3. Probe the device using snmpwalk (part of Net-SNMP tool set installable on most servers) to confirm the data is what you need, and understand the values well enough to set thresholds
4. In Nagios XI, go to configure/configuration wizards, and select the SNMP wizard. This wizard allows you to enter arbitrary OIDs for monitoring.
5. Configure the wizard with the desired power and temperature OIDs and thresholds.

SNMP is kind of old and clunky, but it is fairly well supported by manufacturers, and can be very powerful once you get the hang of using it.