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For servers is there any program that monitors the CPU temp & if it goes over a certain temp it will automatically alert you by sending you an email???

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Good starter suggestions from — SpeedFan is a fine quick fix for a single Windows 2000 box. Below are three practical, low-effort ways to get an automatic e-mail when temps climb, plus short tips you can apply immediately.

  1. Local alert + command-line mailer: use Windows Performance Logs & Alerts (or SpeedFan) to run a program when a threshold is hit, and have that program send mail. Performance Alerts can run a command when a counter exceeds your limit. (learn.microsoft.com)
    A small batch using Blat (command‑line SMTP tool) is reliable on older Windows systems — install Blat, register your SMTP server, then have the alert run a script like:
@echo off
echo %COMPUTERNAME% CPU overtemp at %date% %time% > C:\temp\cpu_alert.txt
blat C:\temp\cpu_alert.txt -t admin@example.com -s "CPU Temp Alert" -f alerts@example.com -server smtp.example.com

(Blat syntax and examples are in the project docs.) (github.com)

  1. Centralized monitoring for many machines: if you have more than one server, use an NMS (Nagios/Icinga/Zabbix) to poll hosts and send notifications centrally. These systems handle retries, throttling, and contact routing far better than per‑machine scripts. Nagios docs and examples show typical email notification command setups. (library.nagios.com)

  2. Hardware/BMC level (recommended for real servers): modern servers expose temps via IPMI/BMC — set sensor thresholds in the BMC or use ipmitool to monitor and trigger alerts (SEL/traps) so you don’t depend on the OS. IPMI lets you set upper/critical thresholds and query sensors directly. (manpages.debian.org)

Quick cautions and tips: many motherboards do not expose true CPU core temps via WMI (MSAcpi_ThermalZoneTemperature can be misleading), so verify the source of the reading before trusting alerts. (learn.microsoft.com) Test alerts (and SMTP auth) thoroughly, add simple rate‑limits or logging to avoid spamming, pick thresholds above normal idle temps (and consider hysteresis), and run any monitoring/sender as a service (srvany/NSSM) so it starts at boot. (nssm.cc)

If you want a copy‑pasteable batch or a short Nagios command snippet tailored to your SMTP (or a PowerShell alternative), that can be provided next.

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Member Avatar for chrisbliss18

Is this is a Windows or Linux server?

If it is Windows, you can use Speedfan to create an event that will execute a program with specified parameters. You could use this to execute a script that would send an email message.

It it is a Linux system, I would have to look around.

Does this system have an overheating issue? If you know it gets too hot, it would be better to just properly thermally cool it.

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Yes its a Windows 2000 system, there isnt an issue with overheating its just that software like that would be useful.

Member Avatar for chrisbliss18

Since you have Windows, give Speedfan a try. It's a great piece of software and should be able to do what you are wanting without too much hassle.

Another step you will need to do since this is a server is make a service that will start this program on boot. You can find out how to turn Speedfan into a service .

If you have any more questions, just let me know.

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Thanks for all the info, will give it a shot.

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