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Userspace tools |
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Introduction |
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Most mainboards have sensor chips to monitor system health (like temperatures, |
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voltages, fans speed). They are often connected through an I2C bus, but some |
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are also connected directly through the ISA bus. |
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The kernel drivers make the data from the sensor chips available in the /sys |
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virtual filesystem. Userspace tools are then used to display the measured |
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values or configure the chips in a more friendly manner. |
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Lm-sensors |
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Core set of utilities that will allow you to obtain health information, |
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setup monitoring limits etc. You can get them on their homepage |
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http://www.lm-sensors.org/ or as a package from your Linux distribution. |
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If from website: |
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Get lm-sensors from project web site. Please note, you need only userspace |
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part, so compile with "make user" and install with "make user_install". |
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General hints to get things working: |
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0) get lm-sensors userspace utils |
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1) compile all drivers in I2C and Hardware Monitoring sections as modules |
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in your kernel |
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2) run sensors-detect script, it will tell you what modules you need to load. |
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3) load them and run "sensors" command, you should see some results. |
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4) fix sensors.conf, labels, limits, fan divisors |
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5) if any more problems consult FAQ, or documentation |
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Other utilities |
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If you want some graphical indicators of system health look for applications |
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like: gkrellm, ksensors, xsensors, wmtemp, wmsensors, wmgtemp, ksysguardd, |
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hardware-monitor |
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If you are server administrator you can try snmpd or mrtgutils.
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