Temperature monitoring on headless board

**IanVaughan** · February 16th, 2014

Whats the best way to setup and run temperature monitoring?

I have a AMD CPU, and a ASUSTeK (M4A88T-M) mobo.

**tgalati4** · February 16th, 2014

Do you have lm-sensors installed?

Code:

apt-cache policy lm-sensors

If so, then what is the output of:

Code:

sensors

It might look like:

tgalati4@Mint14-Extensa ~ $ sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +36.0°C (crit = +95.0°C)
temp2: +36.0°C (crit = +105.0°C)

coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +28.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 1: +34.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)

Check your BIOS for temperature monitoring. For a headless server, having beep codes is helpful for overtemperature conditions. If the server is buried underground or in a barn or attic, then you would set up nagios or psensor and monitor it remotely and sensord for logging.

**IanVaughan** · February 16th, 2014

Excellent, I did not have sensors installed, so added that, and get a nice load of info back!

Code:

atk0110-acpi-0
Adapter: ACPI interface
Vcore Voltage:      +1.04 V  (min =  +0.85 V, max =  +1.60 V)
 +3.3 Voltage:      +3.34 V  (min =  +2.97 V, max =  +3.63 V)
 +5 Voltage:        +4.97 V  (min =  +4.50 V, max =  +5.50 V)
 +12 Voltage:      +11.97 V  (min = +10.20 V, max = +13.80 V)
CPU FAN Speed:     1318 RPM  (min =  600 RPM, max = 7200 RPM)
CHASSIS FAN Speed:    0 RPM  (min =  600 RPM, max = 7200 RPM)
POWER FAN Speed:      0 RPM  (min =  600 RPM, max = 7200 RPM)
CPU Temperature:    +29.0°C  (high = +60.0°C, crit = +95.0°C)
MB Temperature:     +34.0°C  (high = +45.0°C, crit = +75.0°C)

k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:        +19.2°C  (high = +70.0°C)
                       (crit = +99.5°C, hyst = +97.5°C)

I guess then the best thing to do is script/cron piping that into a file, and then parse that to get stats?

Many thanks!

**tgalati4** · February 17th, 2014

I believe sensord dumps the data to the /var/log/syslog as part of routine datalogging. There may be other sensor monitoring tools that don't require you to write a script. But you will have to search for them. I know that the gnome panel applet had warning levels that you could set for each sensor. For a headless server you would want an email or text message when things are grossly out-of-bounds.

Code: