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    HOWTO: Temperature Monitoring with coretemp in Sysinfo widget

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      kilthro
      last edited by

      Stephen,
      I was able to do the manual edits prior to posting. I was just wondering why the patch wasn't working. It would have just saved me some time editing that's all.  Thought maybe i was doing something wrong with the patch.

      btw thanks to the OP for working on this. I do appreciate it. Now if i could just get this info on LCDProc everything would be golden. :-D

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        kilthro
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        For some reason i can't get coretemp to automatically load upon reboot. I can ssh over and run kldload coretemp and i am up and running.  I did edit the loader.conf.local and added coretemp_load="yes".  The module is in /boot/modules as well.

        Am I missing something else to enable pfsense to load this on boot if i have to reboot the firewall?

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          File permissions perhaps?
          Looks like you're doing everything correctly.

          Steve

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            kilthro
            last edited by

            @stephenw10:

            File permissions perhaps?
            Looks like you're doing everything correctly.

            Steve

            What would i be looking for in relation to file permission? is there a way to test (fake boot process) to see if it would give me an error and why it wouldnt load?

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              kilthro
              last edited by

              should i add the line to loader.conf? or would that be bad? Wasnt sure if the .local may not be utilized for some reason? just thinking out loud.

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                wallabybob
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                @kilthro:

                should i add the line to loader.conf? or would that be bad? Wasnt sure if the .local may not be utilized for some reason? just thinking out loud.

                /boot/loader.conf may change on reinstall; /boot/loader.conf.local is guaranteed to remain untouched by a reinstall.

                You might see an error report on coretemp during the early boot (before the kernel is started).

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                  Gluon99
                  last edited by

                  Worked just fine on my Jetway MB with pfSense 2.0.2

                  coretemp.ko was already in /boot/kernel folder

                  Edited all files manually

                  – pfSense 2.0.2 Setup --
                  Motherboard: Jetway NF99FL-525
                  CPU: Intel Atom D525 Dual-Core 1.8GHz
                  RAM: 1x2GB Crucial DDR3 1333
                  HD: 60GB OCZ Agility 3 SATA III
                  PSU: PicoPSU-80
                  Case: M350 Universal Mini-ITX enclosure

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                    mattias197711
                    last edited by

                    will this work for 2.1 to?

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                      kilthro
                      last edited by

                      I have it working on most recent version. Just do the edits manually.

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                        DickB
                        last edited by

                        I have it working on my Soekris 6501-50 with atom E6xx proc. and i386 pfSense 2.1.
                        It shows the temp for 2 cores (hyper threading).
                        I have manually edited both .php files
                        Works great.

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                          mattias197711
                          last edited by

                          cool.

                          thx

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                            mattias197711
                            last edited by

                            Thanks again.

                            did get som errrors at first i missed some stuff. and some rows didnt match.
                            you had some line more then me. but wasnt any biggie.

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                              robi
                              last edited by

                              Works perfectly in release 2.0.3, which already has included coretemp modules! Only the PHP files need to be modified.

                              I suggest to pull these in for everybody, by default in the installation media.

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                The coretemp modules and a dashboard temperature reading is included by default in 2.1. I don't think it is graphed though.

                                Steve

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                                  robi
                                  last edited by

                                  OK thanks, didn't know that, I'm just upgrading to 2.0.3…

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                                    robi
                                    last edited by

                                    If anyone wants to graph these temperatures in Munin, using the munin-node on pfSense based on this, here's a plugin for that:

                                    #!/bin/sh
                                    
                                    # Plugin to monitor Jetway motherboard CPU temperatures on pfSense controller runtime data. Installation:
                                    # - copy this plugin script to /usr/local/share/munin/plugins/, make it executable
                                    # - symlink it to /usr/local/etc/munin/plugins/
                                    # - restart munin-service
                                    
                                    case $1 in
                                       config)
                                            cat <<'EOM'
                                    graph_title CPU Temperatures
                                    graph_vlabel Degrees C
                                    graph_category sensors
                                    cpu_0.label Core 0
                                    cpu_1.label Core 1
                                    cpu_2.label Core 2
                                    cpu_3.label Core 3
                                    
                                    EOM
                                            exit 0;;
                                    esac
                                    
                                    temp0=$(/sbin/sysctl dev.cpu.0.temperature|awk '{print $2}')
                                    echo -n 'cpu_0.value '; echo $temp0|awk '{gsub(/C/,"")};{print}'
                                    temp1=$(/sbin/sysctl dev.cpu.1.temperature|awk '{print $2}')
                                    echo -n 'cpu_1.value '; echo $temp1|awk '{gsub(/C/,"")};{print}'
                                    temp2=$(/sbin/sysctl dev.cpu.2.temperature|awk '{print $2}')
                                    echo -n 'cpu_2.value '; echo $temp2|awk '{gsub(/C/,"")};{print}'
                                    temp3=$(/sbin/sysctl dev.cpu.3.temperature|awk '{print $2}')
                                    echo -n 'cpu_3.value '; echo $temp3|awk '{gsub(/C/,"")};{print}'
                                    
                                    

                                    Btw, munin-node works fine on 2.0.3 too.

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                                      robi
                                      last edited by

                                      Munin Plugin updated for 8-core cpu temperature (tested on Supermicro A1SRi-2758F):

                                      #!/bin/sh
                                      
                                      # - copy this plugin script to /usr/local/share/munin/plugins/, make it executable
                                      # - symlink it to /usr/local/etc/munin/plugins/
                                      # - restart munin-service
                                      
                                      case $1 in
                                      config)
                                      cat <<'EOM'
                                      
                                      graph_title CPU Temperatures
                                      graph_vlabel Degrees C
                                      graph_category sensors
                                      cpu_0.label Core 0
                                      cpu_1.label Core 1
                                      cpu_2.label Core 2
                                      cpu_3.label Core 3
                                      cpu_4.label Core 4
                                      cpu_5.label Core 5
                                      cpu_6.label Core 6
                                      cpu_7.label Core 7
                                      
                                      EOM
                                      exit 0;;
                                      esac
                                      
                                      temps=$(/sbin/sysctl dev.cpu | grep temperature)
                                      echo -n 'cpu_0.value '; printf "$temps" | awk 'NR==1{print $2; exit}' | awk '{gsub(/C/,"")};{print}'
                                      echo -n 'cpu_1.value '; printf "$temps" | awk 'NR==2{print $2; exit}' | awk '{gsub(/C/,"")};{print}'
                                      echo -n 'cpu_2.value '; printf "$temps" | awk 'NR==3{print $2; exit}' | awk '{gsub(/C/,"")};{print}'
                                      echo -n 'cpu_3.value '; printf "$temps" | awk 'NR==4{print $2; exit}' | awk '{gsub(/C/,"")};{print}'
                                      echo -n 'cpu_4.value '; printf "$temps" | awk 'NR==5{print $2; exit}' | awk '{gsub(/C/,"")};{print}'
                                      echo -n 'cpu_5.value '; printf "$temps" | awk 'NR==6{print $2; exit}' | awk '{gsub(/C/,"")};{print}'
                                      echo -n 'cpu_6.value '; printf "$temps" | awk 'NR==7{print $2; exit}' | awk '{gsub(/C/,"")};{print}'
                                      echo -n 'cpu_7.value '; printf "$temps" | awk 'NR==8{print $2; exit}' | awk '{gsub(/C/,"")};{print}'
                                      

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