netbsd man page for sysmon

SYSMON(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						 SYSMON(4)

NAME
     sysmon -- system monitoring and power management interface

DESCRIPTION
     The machine-independent sysmon is a general purpose framework for system monitoring and power management.	The main components of sysmon
     include:

	   o   An ioctl(2) interface available via /dev/sysmon.  The userland counterparts include utilities such as envstat(8) and daemons such
	       as powerd(8).

	   o   An interface for the purpose of delivering different system and power events to userspace; sysmon_pswitch(9).

	   o   A general purpose sensor framework, sysmon_envsys(9).

	   o   A general purpose task queue, sysmon_taskq(9).

	   o   An interface for watchdog timers.

FILES
     /dev/sysmon

SEE ALSO
     envsys(4), swsensor(4), envstat(8), powerd(8), wdogctl(8), pmf(9)

AUTHORS
     Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@NetBSD.org>

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								   June 22, 2011							       BSD