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Date:      Tue, 31 May 2005 12:54:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Enabling acpi_thermal
Message-ID:  <20050531125148.Y33818@border.crystalsphere.multiverse>
In-Reply-To: <20050531194232.GA90259@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <20050531120827.R33657@border.crystalsphere.multiverse> <20050531194232.GA90259@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Tue, 31 May 2005, Dan Nelson wrote:
> 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.

Thanks.  That seems to work.  Now I just have to read the manual to make 
sure I understand what it's telling me.  I had assumed that acpi was the 
only way to get to the thermometer, but I see now that it isn't.



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