From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Jul 4 15:12:59 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B0B79102 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 2015 15:12:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from quartz@sneakertech.com) Received: from douhisi.pair.com (douhisi.pair.com [209.68.5.179]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47760372B for ; Sat, 4 Jul 2015 15:12:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from quartz@sneakertech.com) Received: from [10.2.2.1] (pool-173-48-121-235.bstnma.fios.verizon.net [173.48.121.235]) by douhisi.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ED1D43F6F7 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 2015 11:12:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <5597F7F9.2050309@sneakertech.com> Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2015 11:12:57 -0400 From: Quartz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best console hardware monitor pkg? References: <559760A3.7000901@sneakertech.com> <5597DF28.50903@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <5597DF28.50903@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2015 15:12:59 -0000 > With modern CPUs there is usually an on-die thermal sensor which you can > interrogate by loading a kernel module: see coretemp(4) and amdtemp(4) > -- using these will let you read out CPU temperature using sysctl(1). Yeah the sysctl trick is a good tip, I use that a lot. I wish it could read all the other stuff though. > Unfortunately access to other monitoring variables is less consistent. That's kinda what I've noticed. We have a mixture of Nagios and other stuff we use to keep tabs on things and I know there are like half a dozen sysutils in the pkg/ports. But I was wondering if, at least for basic temp/rpm stuff, things had settled down and coalesced to the point where there was one or two "best" choices for something simple where setting up a whole suite is unnecessary. > IPMI Most of our serious rackmount stuff has IPMI, but there are also a bunch of 'prosumer' servers kicking around I'd like to throw a better single lightweight util on.