[Discuss] Thermal monitoring

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 10/21/2011 10:39 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I have a system that has been having heat problems. (Apparently when it was
> in my boss' home, he replaced the existing cooling fans with whimpy ones,
> but he kept the original fans so yesterday we did replace them, but I would
> like to be able to monitor the temps.
> CPU2: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM1)
>
> But, I don't have any ACPI support: /proc/acip/thermal_zone is empty.
> I'm looking for a quick and dirty way to check to see if the unit temps are
> ok since this system is our Oracle server.
>
> Currently the system only has the 4 original cooling fans, but not the
> exhaust fans. I have some email to Supermicro on this if we need to get the
> exhaust fans.
>
> But, I'd like a way that I can look for issues not only on this server but
> my other devices. I actually noticed the heat issue the other day when the
> CPU throttled down because I had a terminal open on that system.

I usually use lm_sensors to monitor for heat:

[darose at daroselin ~]$ sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:        +62.0°C  (crit = +97.0°C)

HTH,

DR