Re: Porting OpenBSD's sysctl hw.sensors framework to FreeBSD (was: Re: PERFORCE change 123040 for review)

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 Most hardware monitoring tools in the ports tree are outdated and no longer being maintained: xmbmon, healthd, lmmon, consolehm, wmhm etc.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.
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