Hardware Temperature monitoring with lm_sensors

There's a long-standing feature request for this; Please vote for it at
Reporting: Enhanced Hardware Information
if you'd like to see this better-integrated.

Meanwhile, if you want to be able to get your system temperatures, fan speeds, and voltages from the console or SSH, you can do the following (as root):

First download a backup config file; there's a small chance of a lockup during the sensor detection phase.
Also keep in mind that this may void your support contract, however the changes can easily be reverted (see below).

[code]
# detect motherboard hardware; this will create new config at /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors
sensors-detect

#start the service
/etc/init.d/lm_sensors restart

#read the sensors (don't need to be root for this part)
sensors
#or
/etc/init.d/lm_sensors status
[code]

If all of the above works, you can enable the service to start at boot time with:
cd /etc/init.d/rc3.d/
ln -s ../lm_sensors S99sensors

If it doesn't work, delete
/etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors
to remove the configuration file.


This works for me on my MSI Atom system running Astaro v9.000.
I've also tried it on my HP running v8.3 but got an ACPI warning, and on a friend's PC running v8, but was not successful at finding the hardware.
Not all hardware will be detected.

sensord is not present in v9, so there is (still) no practical way to do automated hardware monitoring.


Barry