From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 31 19:42:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EF6116A41C for ; Tue, 31 May 2005 19:42:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC31143D48 for ; Tue, 31 May 2005 19:42:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id j4VJgXWL037385; Tue, 31 May 2005 14:42:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 14:42:33 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Luke Dean Message-ID: <20050531194232.GA90259@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050531120827.R33657@border.crystalsphere.multiverse> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050531120827.R33657@border.crystalsphere.multiverse> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Enabling acpi_thermal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 19:42:35 -0000 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