linux lm_sensor monitoring

Question

I have tried to monitor optiplex gx150 and latitude c840 with lm_sensors package with little success. Can somebody tell me what kind of sensors are present in which dell computer? I also came accross message on some ml from dell employee saying pe servers are using lm78 chips hidden behind some other monitoring system, which will be supported sometime in dell's software for linux. The message is at http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-aacraid-devel/2001-February/000019.html. I am currently interested in gx150 and also c840. I would expect the capability in both as gx150 uses i810 chipset, which should have lm78 functionality integrated and c840 is notebook, so there must be some ways to monitor temperature etc, no? Can somebody explain how are these things done in dell computers?

Thank you,

NetVicious · Answer

I'm looking for the same but for one PowerEdge, on this pages you could see the chipsets, but you can see also sensors-detect cannont detect it because the PCI ID isn't known by developers.

http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/supported.html
http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/newdrivers.html

GMS-London · Answer

I have a cluster of 70 Precision 340s and 360s running RH9 and RH EWS-3. I am disappointed to see no support at all from Dell for hardware monitoring under Linux - One of my A/C units is down and I have a pressing need to monitor CPU temperatures . lm_sensors (2.8.7) should do the job , i.e. i2c-i801 loads, but doesn't find anything on the SMbus. Anyone here got lm_sensors to work on Dell?

NetVicious · Answer

Dell doesn't provides information to the lm_sensors community to make lm_sensors suitable for get the info from dell computers.

Dell provides Open Manage for this purposes.
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/solutions/en/openmanage?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz&~page=3&~tab=3

I don't tested it so I couldn't say nothing about it.

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