Common interface for sensors/health monitoring

[Marc Balmer]

Am 23.08.2009 um 17:08 schrieb Alexander Leidinger:

> On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:02:32 +0200 "Aurélien Méré"
> <aurelien.mere at amc-os.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm just afraid by reading your email that the situation doesn't seem
>> to have evolved since the discussion regarding the SoC, maybe even
>> more taboo, and that I'll have to keep writing my own software and
>> drivers to get the data I want in the future if I want to get this
>> data under FreeBSD.. Is it the case ?
>
> It is not "taboo", it is just that nobody wants to spend his spare  
> time
> with something like this now.
>
> And yes, as far as I know you have to keep writting our own stuff. But
> maybe we can set up a wiki page where people can share their
> FreeBSD specific stuff. Someone just has to be willing to invest some
> time to add stuff. I have a little script which adds 24 values to
> ganglia, and it's extensible (4 lines for wach value), e.g.:
> ---snip---
> metrics="${metrics} HD3_Temp"
> HD3_Temp_value="$(smartctl -A ad3 |awk '/Temperature_Celsius/ { print
> $10 }')" HD3_Temp_type="uint8"
> HD3_Temp_unit="Celsius"
>
> metrics="${metrics} logins"
> logins_value="$(who -q | grep users | cut -d ' ' -f 4)"
> logins_type="uint8"
> logins_unit="Users"
>
> metrics="${metrics} SwapIn"
> SwapIn_value="$(sysctl vm.stats.vm.v_swapin | cut -d ' ' -f 2)"
> SwapIn_type="uint32"
> SwapIn_unit="Units"
> ---snip---
>
> I would add my script to such a wiki page, if some else is willing to
> start such a page.

<sarcasm >
such a script would indeed be much nicer than a well crafted framework  
for the job.
</sarcasm>

> If someone not @FreeBSD.org wants to maintain such a page, feel free  
> to
> register in the wiki and tell me (or another committer), I will hand  
> out
> write permission then.

I hope people spend their time on thinking what was bad with the  
sensor framework last time and improve on that, instead.

>
> Bye,
> Alexander.