Monitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring system temperatures

Kelvin Tegelaar | 29 Aug, 2021 | 1 Mins Read

This blog was requested by one of the partners I work with. At times, you want to monitor the device temperatures and fan settings; you don’t want a machine to be constantly making noise because it’s having a hard time cooling down. While I’m not really one of the engineers that firmly believes in a high impact of temperature on normal workstations I can understand the annoyance the extra noise brings.

To monitor this, we’re using WMI/CIM. Unfortunately, not all manufacturers publish this information to WMI. If the script fails with “Could not get CPU temperature. Your manufacturer might not support this.” Then this is the case. You’ll be able to use external tools to get the temperature then.

try {
    $t = Get-CimInstance MSAcpi_ThermalZoneTemperature -Namespace "root/wmi" -ErrorAction Stop | Where-Object -Property instancename -EQ "ACPI\ThermalZone\TZ01_0" | Select-object -first 1
    $currentTempKelvin = $t.CurrentTemperature / 10
    $currentTempCelsius = $currentTempKelvin - 273.15
    $currentTempCelsius.ToString() + "°C"
}
Catch {
    Write-Host "Could not get CPU temperature. Your manafacturer might not support this."
}

And that’s it! as always, Happy PowerShelling!

CyberDrain CTF returns! (and so do I!)

It’s been since september that I actually picked up a digital pen equivalent and wrote anything down. This was due to me being busy with life but also my side projects like CIPP. I’m trying to get back into the game of scripting and blogging about these scripts. There’s still so much to automate and so little time, right? ;)

Intro

This is a monitoring script requested via Reddit, One of the reddit r/msp users wondered how they can monitor Acronis a little bit easier. I jumped on this because it happened pretty much at the same time that I was asked to speak at the Acronis CyberSummit so it kinda made sense to script this so I have something to demonstrate at my session there.

Intro

Wow! It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. I’ve just been so swamped with CIPP that I’ve just let the blogging go entirely. It’s a shame because I think out of all my hobbies it’s one I enjoy the most. It’s always nice helping others achieve their scripting target. I even got a couple of LinkedIn questions asking if I was done with blogging but I’m not. Writing always gives me some more piece of mind so I’ll try to catch up again. I know I’ve said that before but this time I’ll follow through. I’m sitting down right now and scheduling the release of 5 blogs in one go. No more whining and no more waiting.