Environmental & facilities monitoring · 5 min read

Integrate smoke and fire detection alarms

Data center smoke detection is usually its own certified fire-suppression system, not something Linivo replaces. Here's the right way to bring its alerts in as a signal, not a controller.

What you'll need

  • A fire-detection or building-management system with an SNMP, webhook, or dry-contact relay output
1

Treat this as read-only visibility, not control

Never wire Linivo into anything that could suppress or delay an actual fire-suppression system's own logic. The goal here is purely to get a copy of the alarm state into your monitoring timeline, not to mediate it.

2

Use whatever output the fire system already supports

Many building fire panels can drive a dry-contact relay into a generic environmental sensor's input, which then reports over that sensor's existing SNMP agent; others support a direct webhook or BMS integration, which is often the cleaner path if available.

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Set it as the highest severity, with no suppression window

Unlike almost every other alert type in Linivo, a fire-detection signal should never be silenced by a maintenance window; configure it, if the option exists, to bypass scheduled suppression entirely.