From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 6 19:28:37 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BB2A106566B; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 19:28:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@freebsd.org) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02DDD8FC1F; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 19:28:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from odyssey.starpoint.kiev.ua (alpha-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.101]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id VAA14529; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:28:30 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <4CFD395E.8040901@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:28:30 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101029 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Mikhail T." References: <4CFC910A.5090806@aldan.algebra.com> <4CFCDA96.8040803@freebsd.org> <4CFD2D25.8090607@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <4CFD2D25.8090607@aldan.algebra.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netchild@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon Subject: Re: monitoring hardware temperatures X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:28:37 -0000 on 06/12/2010 20:36 Mikhail T. said the following: > On 06.12.2010 07:44, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> Well, that code has support only for a few types of hardware monitoring chips >> (Super I/Os with hardware monitoring function). > Damn, I wish I knew earlier... The machine I'm retiring now -- but which was my > primary horse 3 years ago -- has "Super I/O" :-( Well, that fact alone doesn't mean anything. >> So, it greatly depends on exact kind of hardware and sensors that you have. >> First thing you should do to is to discover what kind of hardware is used for >> monitoring in your server. >> In your case that data might be provided via IPMI. > Thanks, I'll explore that pointer... >From what I googled about Dell servers this could be your best chance. Unfortunately they don't provide their OMSA/OpenManage for FreeBSD. They do for Linux however. >> Especially I am not sure about monitoring DIMM temperature - greatly depends on >> the way that it is actually done. Perhaps it's reported via SMBus by the DIMMs >> themselves, not sure... > Both NetBSD and OpenBSD (and, likely, DragonFly too) have something called sdtemp(4): > > http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/dev/i2c/sdtemp.c?v=NETBSD > > I thought, that driver would be part of the unfortunate "basic support for a few > sensors"... Not sure if it was included in that import, can't find it. > Anyway, I'll try merging the http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/sensors9.diff, and > see, what gives... The patch may be out of date. Let me know if you run into problems, I'll regenerate it. > Is not it just like Linux, that one needs to get patches from here and there to > get going :-\ ? No comment. -- Andriy Gapon