From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 20 4:42:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C803337B479 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 04:42:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 97870 invoked by uid 100); 20 Nov 2000 12:42:50 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14873.7242.370522.402799@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 06:42:50 -0600 (CST) To: Manuel Kasper Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware monitoring on Compaq servers In-Reply-To: <30970337@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Manuel Kasper types: > I'm using FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE on a Compaq ML370 server - everything is > working fine at the moment (no RAID controller installed at the moment ;). > > However, there's one thing I'm wondering about: is there any FreeBSD > driver/application/whatever that monitors the system's health (temperature, > fan speed, failed components, etc.)? Look in /usr/ports/sysutils. There's healthd and heat (at the very least). > These drivers also control the fan speed (as soon as I load the driver > under Linux the extremely high speed of the main fan is reduced to > something more reasonable for the system temperature). I don't think that healthd or heat will do that. > Unfortunately they do not provide any specs or source code. You might ask compaq if the source is available. You can also try running the drivers under Linux compatability mode.