Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:37:15 -0400 From: "Constantine A. Murenin" <cnst@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> Cc: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>, Shteryana Shopova <syrinx@FreeBSD.org>, "Constantine A. Murenin" <cnst@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Porting OpenBSD's sysctl hw.sensors framework to FreeBSD (was: Re: PERFORCE change 123040 for review) Message-ID: <4693EDFB.5050401@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200707101833.l6AIX0xl049962@ambrisko.com>
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On 10/07/2007 14:33, Doug Ambrisko wrote: >There are so many different flavours of HW monitoring chips > and several tools that can read them live in ports. Lots of them are > slightly different, intefaces can be i2c or direct I/O. Please, enlighten me which of these several tools were updated in the last few years. Most hardware monitoring tools in the ports tree are outdated and no longer being maintained: xmbmon, healthd, lmmon, consolehm, wmhm etc. Several of these have a last-modified date of 2000, that's 7 years ago! Please note that this framework is not limited to monitoring temperature and fan speed sensors -- it also allows one to monitor raid array status and a few other things. Moreover, in OpenBSD and NetBSD these kinds of in-kernel frameworks are used to display ipmi(4) sensors, too. Monitoring of remote machines with this framework is also possible -- with symon from ports. Querying local machines is as easy as running sysctl or systat, and alerts can be generated through sensorsd. Cheers, Constantine.home | help
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