Hardware Monitoring (temperature etc.) ?

[sullrich]

@hoba:

If it's added as package it has to be a seperate page and a seperate menu entry. If it's in base with an option to turn it on/off it could be displayed at system>status.

If someone wants to work on a package I'll be happy to integrate the kernel bits.

[nima.m]

I did some invenstigation and this is what I found, first we need to compile these parameters in Kernel :

	device          smbus
	device          ichsmb
	device          smb
	device          iicbus
	device          iicbb
	device          intpm
	device          pcf
	device          acpi

Then the best software out there that fit for pfsense is healthd
healthd is the only software that has support for so many chipset (W83781D, W83782D, W83783S, LM78, LM79 and the AS99127F)
this software is a deamon that easly can start in rc.d directory
later you can read out sensor figures by runing this command :
/usr/local/bin/healthdc -H
the -H parameters create a HTML output that can easly be included in pfsense WEBGUI

So the question is if Scott will compile a kernel with above parameters for pfsense :-)

[sullrich]

Those values are already present from what I can tell.

[billm]

@nima.m:

I did some invenstigation and this is what I found, first we need to compile these parameters in Kernel :

	device          smbus
	device          ichsmb
	device          smb
	device          iicbus
	device          iicbb
	device          intpm
	device          pcf
	device          acpi

Then the best software out there that fit for pfsense is healthd
healthd is the only software that has support for so many chipset (W83781D, W83782D, W83783S, LM78, LM79 and the AS99127F)
this software is a deamon that easly can start in rc.d directory
later you can read out sensor figures by runing this command :
/usr/local/bin/healthdc -H
the -H parameters create a HTML output that can easly be included in pfsense WEBGUI

Check out how the temp. monitor is setup on for 4801's.  All the code for that is in /usr/local/www/* and subdirectories of it.  Should be easy to modify to check for the presense of the healthd package and make the appropriate calls.

–Bill

[KiaN]

Works great for me with a cronjob :

*/1 * * * * /usr/local/bin/healthdc -H > /usr/local/www/temp/index.php

I only miss HD temp :(

# smartctl -a /dev/ad2s1a
smartctl version 5.33 [i386-portbld-freebsd6.1] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device)

A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.

[Phobia]

Hi again all,

So, is this then possible to add to the actual install of PFSense, or is the manual hacking the only way to go?

Thanks,

– Phob

[hoba]

Unless somebody makes a package of this that generates a nice webguiscreen and/or maybe even some rrdgraphs "hacking" is the only option.

[mbreitba]

So are these values natively accessable via SNMP, or do I need to "hack" it to get those values?  We already monitor a ton of stuff with MRTG (including bandwidth) but CPU usage and Memory usage would be nice to add to our graphs!

[unforeseen]

So I guess there was not enough interest for anyone to actually attempt this (release wise)?  Seems like it would be "handy" if nothing else for the 3% of us… I would put in my two cents that if someone was to spend time to create it, I feel that it probably should be an add-on package.  I'm really suprised though, up to the last post, it seemed like it was drawing some positive feedback.

All well, thanks for all the hard work!

[ivanjong]

i know this thread is old. but anyone else tried to run healthd and others on smbus ? i tried but i think our kernel doesnt have device          smbus
device          ichsmb
device          smb
device          iicbus
device          iicbb
device          intpm
device          pcf
device          acpi
is anyone sure this is compile in ? we have acpi. but not smbus and smb and iicbus and iicbb.