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Date:      Mon, 20 Nov 2000 06:42:50 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Manuel Kasper <manuelk@bluewin.ch>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Hardware monitoring on Compaq servers
Message-ID:  <14873.7242.370522.402799@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <30970337@toto.iv>

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Manuel Kasper <manuelk@bluewin.ch> 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.

	<mike



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