Blackbox for WHS Add-In for Windows Home Server Video Editon

Following on from yesterdays announcement about Sam Woods new Blackbox for WHS add-in for Windows Home Server, Tim has done a video.

Here is how Sam describes Blackbox for WHS:

Tentacle Software Blackbox is a Windows Home Server Add-In that provides in-depth monitoring of motherboard hardware sensors and configurable alerting rules to notify the server administrator when a sensor exceeds a defined threshold.

Key features:

  • Real-time monitoring of supported hardware sensors
  • Administrator-defined rules to perform actions based on sensor states, including:
    • Log the alert to a file
    • Log the alert to the Event Log
    • Create a Windows Home Server health notification (that appears in the server health status window)
    • Set a fan speed
    • Change the system power state (shut down, suspend, hibernate, or restart)
  • PWM fan control

You can check out the article from yesterday here.

Anyway, on to the video:

Blackbox Add-IN for Windows Home Server

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