Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:17:30 +0200 From: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Aur=E9lien_M=E9r=E9?= <kindman@amc-os.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Common interface for sensors/health monitoring Message-ID: <6101e8c40908211917k69c82491w3cff00a527d14873@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <D3D19C706C2842389C87590424D0A8CB@kmlaptop> References: <D3D19C706C2842389C87590424D0A8CB@kmlaptop>
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Hello! When I good know, no common interface exisit in current freebsd kernel, but some other sysctl interfece exisit: coretemp, aiboost ... ~> sysctl dev.coretemp dev.coretemp.0.%desc: CPU On-Die Thermal Sensors dev.coretemp.0.%driver: coretemp dev.coretemp.0.%parent: cpu0 dev.coretemp.1.%desc: CPU On-Die Thermal Sensors dev.coretemp.1.%driver: coretemp dev.coretemp.1.%parent: cpu1 dev.coretemp.2.%desc: CPU On-Die Thermal Sensors dev.coretemp.2.%driver: coretemp dev.coretemp.2.%parent: cpu2 dev.coretemp.3.%desc: CPU On-Die Thermal Sensors dev.coretemp.3.%driver: coretemp dev.coretemp.3.%parent: cpu3 ~> sysctl dev.acpi_aiboost dev.acpi_aiboost.0.%desc: ASUStek AIBOOSTER dev.acpi_aiboost.0.%driver: acpi_aiboost dev.acpi_aiboost.0.%location: handle=3D\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.ASOC dev.acpi_aiboost.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=3DATK0110 _UID=3D16843024 dev.acpi_aiboost.0.%parent: acpi0 dev.acpi_aiboost.0.temp0: 190 dev.acpi_aiboost.0.temp1: 300 dev.acpi_aiboost.0.volt0: 1144 dev.acpi_aiboost.0.volt1: 3328 dev.acpi_aiboost.0.volt2: 5064 dev.acpi_aiboost.0.volt3: 12096 dev.acpi_aiboost.0.fan0: 1962 dev.acpi_aiboost.0.fan1: 1180 dev.acpi_aiboost.0.fan2: 1278 dev.acpi_aiboost.0.fan3: 0 dev.acpi_aiboost.0.fan4: 0 but no common if.. On 8/22/09, Aur=E9lien M=E9r=E9 <kindman@amc-os.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using FreeBSD for years in all my servers, but I'm facing a big > problem today. All servers are under monitoring using a couple of > applications and scripts. Monitored items for each server especially are > CPU/mobo/UPS/HDD temperatures, CPU load, memory use, fans speed, PSU/UPS > voltages, HDD/RAID status&usage, network connectivity, UPS load, battery > status & runtime, ... > > My concern today, excepted that there is no way to gather all the data > through a unique interface and that consequently we have to change the > scripts depending on hardware, is that some information are no longer > available at all, especially concerning the MB IC, ie. temperatures, > voltages & fan speed. Actually, some SMBus controllers (like from 2006 or > so) are not supported by any driver and I didn't find any port updated to > access the IC directly (if even possible). Currently, I sometimes have to > use mbmon with direct I/O, sometimes mbmon with SMBus, sometimes healthd = and > sometimes nothing works (PR 137668 or 136762 as examples in my case). > > Besides that, I was quite surprised that these information are available = in > OpenBSD through a very simple and unique sysctl interface, with up-to-dat= e > drivers, working on all my servers with a generic install. I know that be= low > this presentation layer, this may be much less perfect, and by digging in= , I > found that a 2007 GSoC project for porting the OpenBSD sensor framework w= as > realised and planned to be put in HEAD. I also read hundreds of mails > concerning this project, and why finally it was not commited. > > As developer, I fully understand some of the concerns in these threads an= d > that there are probably lots of things to change and work on, integrate i= t > in a cleaner repository like snmp or whatever; and I'd be glad to help in > any > possible way to improve this. But in the meantime, as netadmin, this kind= of > information can be very important to prevent or diagnose major problems; = so > I'd like to know what is being planned/done on this subject, as I didn't > find any > more information related to this than a discussion during bsdcan 2008. > > Thanks for your help and time, > Aur=E9lien > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " >
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