Enabling acpi_thermal

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue May 31 19:42:35 GMT 2005


In the last episode (May 31), Luke Dean said:
> After having a router literally melt during a period of record-high
> temperatures last week, I've become interested in remotely monitoring
> the temperature of some of my systems.
> 
> I've got two FreeBSD systems running 5.4.  Both use acpi, and several
> acpi sysctl variables are present, but the hw.acpi.thermal family is
> missing.

You'll probably have better luck by installing xmbmon and either
setting up an exec line in snmpd.conf that runs "mbmon -T1 -c1", or
writing a little cgi that runs mbmon, and polling that remotely.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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