"joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Corey Hickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Anyone know from experience of a commandline oriented program that can >>> access S.M.A.R.T. data? In particular hard drive temperature. >>> >>> This would be a monitor tool for windowsxp machines. >> >> I've never tried it on anything other than Linux, but smartmontools lists >> Windows as a supported platform. Reading drive temperature works fine for >> me. >> >> http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
> > Kindly specify or paste a sample format ouput of your monitoring tools, > and which portion you want to be extracted, it's nice also if you can > provide a snippet of your effort. If you are speaking to OP, then I have no monitoring tool as yet. Hence my post here. If you mean what I'm attempting to do then in brief: I've built a computer cabinet attempting to control noise and heat. The heat part is based on a fairly large squirrel cage fan (located outside a window) pulling air thru the special cabinet. I've arranged movable baffles to be able to direct the air flow in various ways. I want to be able to chart the effects in temperature as I make adjustments to the baffles. So, I want to be able to run a quick command from cmdline that will extract the current temperature of all disks on a specific (Windows XP) machine and redirect output to an cumulative file. My main background is unix and I have no skills in vba or similar scripting language so I immediately think to use perl to for this. There are no snippets from the perl script since it isn't written. But I don't anticipate any problem with that part. First need was a tool that lends itself to cmdline usage and can be run on windowsXP. Just a basic way to review temperature changes over time as air is directed in various ways. ================================== To Corey: Thanks for the URL. It does look promising although not so easy to see how to use it to quicly extract a temperature. I've posted to that tools mailling list so hope to have it working soon. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
