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PSENSOR(1)							   User Commands							PSENSOR(1)

NAME

       psensor - Temperature monitoring application

SYNOPSIS

       psensor [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

       psensor is a GTK application for monitoring hardware sensors, including temperatures and fan speeds.

       It  displays a curve for each sensor, and uses Desktop Notification to raise an alarm when a temperature is too high. On Ubuntu an Applica-
       tion Indicator is also available, its icon changes when a temperature alert is raised.

       It can monitor:
	 * the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using lm-sensors).
	 * the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl).
	 * the temperature and fan rotation speed of the ATI GPUs.
	 * the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp).
	 * the rotation speed of the fans (using lm-sensors).
	 * the sensors of a remote computer (using psensor-server).

       Psensor requires lm-sensors to be correctly installed and configured, it can be checked by running the command 'sensors'. If it	has  never
       be  done, you may need to run the command 'sensors-detect' and follow the instruction. See the manpages of sensors(1) and sensors-detect(8)
       for more information.

       To retrieve the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives, the hddtemp daemon must be running.

       For remote monitoring:
	 * start psensor-server(1) on the remote computer
	 * run psensor with '--url' option: 'psensor --url=http://localhost:3131'

       ATI/AMD GPUs monitoring is available if the library libatiadlxx is present in the directory /usr/lib and psensor has been compiled with the
       ATI ADL SDK.

       Log is written to '$HOME/.psensor/log'.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      display this help and exit

       -v, --version
	      display version information and exit

       -u, --url=URL
	      the URL of the psensor-server, example: http://hostname:3131

       -d, --debug=LEVEL
	      set the debug level, integer between 0 and 3

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to: jeanfi@gmail.com

       psensor home page: <http://wpitchoune.net/psensor>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2010-2012 jeanfi@gmail.com License GPLv2: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
       This is free software: you are free to change and  redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       psensor-server(1), sensors(1), sensors-detect(8), hddtemp(8)

psensor 0.6.2.17						    March 2012								PSENSOR(1)

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SENSORS-DETECT(8)					      System Manager's Manual						 SENSORS-DETECT(8)

NAME

       sensors-detect - detect hardware monitoring chips

SYNOPSIS

       sensors-detect

DESCRIPTION

       sensors-detect  is  an  interactive  program that will walk you through the process of scanning your system for various hardware monitoring
       chips, or sensors, supported by libsensors(3), or more generally by the lm_sensors tool suite.

       sensors-detect will look for the following devices, in order:

       o      Sensors embedded in CPUs, south bridges and memory controllers.

       o      Sensors embedded in Super I/O chips.

       o      Hardware monitoring chips accessed through ISA I/O ports.

       o      Hardware monitoring chips reachable over the SMBus or more generally any I2C bus on your system.

       As the last two detection steps can cause trouble on some systems, they are normally not attempted if the second detection step led to  the
       discovery  of a Super I/O chip with complete hardware monitoring features.  However, the user is always free to ask for all detection steps
       if so is his/her wish. This can be useful if a given system has more than one hardware monitoring chip. Some vendors are known to do  this,
       most notably Asus and Tyan.

WARNING

       sensors-detect  needs  to access the hardware for most of the chip detections.  By definition, it doesn't know which chips are there before
       it manages to identify them. This means that it can access chips in a way these chips do not like,  causing  problems  ranging  from  SMBus
       lockup to permanent hardware damage (a rare case, thankfully.)

       The  authors  made  their  best	to make the detection as safe as possible, and it turns out to work just fine in most cases, however it is
       impossible to guarantee that sensors-detect will not lock or kill a specific system. So, as a rule of thumb, you should	not  run  sensors-
       detect  on  production  servers,  and you should not run sensors-detect if can't afford replacing a random part of your system. Also, it is
       recommended to not force a detection step which would have been skipped by default, unless you know what you are doing.

SEE ALSO

       sensors(1), libsensors(3)

AUTHOR

       Frodo Looijaard and Jean Delvare

lm-sensors 3							   December 2008						 SENSORS-DETECT(8)
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