Power supply monitoring in Linux?

Tom Buskey tom at buskey.name
Wed Nov 7 11:12:27 EST 2007


Does lm_sensors have something?  IPMI?  Do your motherboards support them?

Sun boxes have sensors that are read by prtdiag that's hardware & OS
specific.  I suspect hardware will be the bottleneck


On 11/7/07, Shawn K. O'Shea <shawn at eth0.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > Is anyone aware of means to monitor power supplies under Linux?  I
> > have systems which have dual-redundant power supplies and I'd like to
> > monitor them for possible failures so I can send an alert, set a trap,
> > etc.
>
> I'm not sure if there's a generic way to look for this. If the machine
> is one of the "big three", they all offer agent software (I believe
> all free) for monitoring/control of their systems (Dell OpenManage,
> IBM Director, HP Insight Manager).
>
> -Shawn
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