Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:28:30 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> To: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: netchild@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: monitoring hardware temperatures Message-ID: <4CFD395E.8040901@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4CFD2D25.8090607@aldan.algebra.com> References: <4CFC910A.5090806@aldan.algebra.com> <4CFCDA96.8040803@freebsd.org> <4CFD2D25.8090607@aldan.algebra.com>
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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 The patch may be out of date.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
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