1Userspace tools 2=============== 3 4Introduction 5------------ 6 7Most mainboards have sensor chips to monitor system health (like temperatures, 8voltages, fans speed). They are often connected through an I2C bus, but some 9are also connected directly through the ISA bus. 10 11The kernel drivers make the data from the sensor chips available in the /sys 12virtual filesystem. Userspace tools are then used to display the measured 13values or configure the chips in a more friendly manner. 14 15Lm-sensors 16---------- 17 18Core set of utilities that will allow you to obtain health information, 19setup monitoring limits etc. You can get them on their homepage 20http://www.lm-sensors.org/ or as a package from your Linux distribution. 21 22If from website: 23Get lm-sensors from project web site. Please note, you need only userspace 24part, so compile with "make user" and install with "make user_install". 25 26General hints to get things working: 27 280) get lm-sensors userspace utils 291) compile all drivers in I2C and Hardware Monitoring sections as modules 30 in your kernel 312) run sensors-detect script, it will tell you what modules you need to load. 323) load them and run "sensors" command, you should see some results. 334) fix sensors.conf, labels, limits, fan divisors 345) if any more problems consult FAQ, or documentation 35 36Other utilities 37--------------- 38 39If you want some graphical indicators of system health look for applications 40like: gkrellm, ksensors, xsensors, wmtemp, wmsensors, wmgtemp, ksysguardd, 41hardware-monitor 42 43If you are server administrator you can try snmpd or mrtgutils. 44