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OpenBSD 3.9 Adds Sensor Framework

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-even-my-computers-are-calling-me dept.

wbglinks writes to tell us ZDNet is reporting that the newest version of OpenBSD will include a sensor framework to help system administrators keep tabs on the environmental conditions of their servers. From the article: "At present, there are a number of commercial products that allow the environmental conditions of servers to be monitored, but different brands of server require different products. For example, Dell PowerEdge servers use the Embedded Server Management tool, while Sun Fire Servers use Sun's Remote System Control. This can make server management tricky when running a heterogeneous architecture. OpenBSD 3.9, which is scheduled for release on 1 May, includes support for the sensors and the sensor management tools used on a number of architectures."

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  1. Re:Should it be in? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you RTFA, you can see that that quotation was taken out of context. Theo was discussing fully random memory allocation to prevent buffer overflow. As far as I know, sensor monitoring is available quite easily in Linux.

  2. Re:Should it be in? by bensch128 · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's lots of niche features which are in the main branch of the kernel.

    NUMA, OMAP, powerPC, and the list goes on and on.

    However, I think it would be VERY cool to be able to query /dev/tempsensor1 for the tempature of my motherboard or CPU. Might even be able to do something useful with it.

    Cheers,
    Ben

  3. Re:What about ACPI? by ThePhilips · · Score: 4, Informative

    IIRC Intel's ACPI code was included in Kernel long time ago. It's just ACPI has nothing to do with sensors. (http://acpi.sourceforge.net/)

    Sensors it's LM78 project. But. Not on single Linux instalation I've had luck with sensor installation. )-: Most of the time lm78 reported me nothing - given it found any sensors at all...

    P.S. Overall, due to separate development of kernel and libc, Linux development rarely results in any kind of API or framework. (Well, except the even rarer case when both developers - libc & kernel ones - happen to be employed by Red Hat.)

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  4. Re:Welcome to.... by Triumph+The+Insult+C · · Score: 5, Informative

    this sensor framework is integrated into the base install. it is managed and developed by the openbsd developers, not a third party group where changes still have to get imported

    the framework supports a lot of sensors. along with sensorsd(9), it is a large improvement over what has been available for other OSes

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