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Date:      Tue, 31 May 2005 14:42:33 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Enabling acpi_thermal
Message-ID:  <20050531194232.GA90259@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050531120827.R33657@border.crystalsphere.multiverse>
References:  <20050531120827.R33657@border.crystalsphere.multiverse>

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In the last episode (May 31), Luke Dean said:
> After having a router literally melt during a period of record-high
> temperatures last week, I've become interested in remotely monitoring
> the temperature of some of my systems.
> 
> I've got two FreeBSD systems running 5.4.  Both use acpi, and several
> acpi sysctl variables are present, but the hw.acpi.thermal family is
> missing.

You'll probably have better luck by installing xmbmon and either
setting up an exec line in snmpd.conf that runs "mbmon -T1 -c1", or
writing a little cgi that runs mbmon, and polling that remotely.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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