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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