CPU temperature monitoring

[John Paine]

Hi,
anyone out there know of any CPU temperature
monitoring tools for linux?...apart from lm_sensors which involves making a new kernel..
Thanks,
John.

[Frank Gilsdorf]

Hi John,

lm_sensors don't need to build a new kernel. Maybe you have to build new kernel-modules. But if you don't have a to exoctic mainboard the modules should work.

If you are using RedHat install the lm_sensors.rpm from 1st CD and start sensor-detect.

Frank

[John Paine]

Thanks for the response Frank but I couldn't find the rpm on any of the CD's....I'll have a search on the web....
John.

[Frank Gilsdorf]

Hi John,

I'm using RedHat 7.2 and it's on the 1st CD.

Frank

[Mark Fenton]

http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/redhat/7.1/i386/lm_sensors-2.5.5-3.i386.html

or

http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/redhat/7.2/i386/lm_sensors-2.5.5-6.i386.html

for redhat 7.1 or 7.2 respectively

[Emile van Heerden]

Hi All, Just been thinking of temperature monitoring of a range of HP servers for data collection. We are working on rack spacing and heat removal for our data centres and I am hoping to set up a monitoring system for our server CPUâ s as an experiment. I see some notes on the subject and an hoping somebody got a system running and would like to share the information on setting up such a system over a LAN. Kind regards
Emi

[Mike Jagdis]

If it's an HP server running Linux, install HP's monitoring daemon package. That'll build and load a kernel module and start a few daemons. You can then get temp (and lots of other stuff) via their web interface or just read /proc/cpqtemp directly (like all^wmost /proc files it's just text).