[geeks] latest system monitoring for Solaris 10 x86

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Mar 19, 2009, at 14:08 , Jonathan J. M. Katz wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com 
> >wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if Solaris 10 has any available updates or third  
>> party
>> packages to monitor system sensors on an X86 machine?
>>
>> In my case I'd like a few simple things like temperature for CPU  
>> and drives
>> for a Dell T105 server (which runs Solaris 10 very well BTW).
>>
>
> I think you'll be limited to parsing prtdiag output....

The x86 driver for prtdiag shows the system information, descriptive,  
but doesn't show any details on the CPUs like temperature.

I tried using ipimon which is supposed to talk to Dell BMC hardware,  
but it is either incompatible or outdated.

Hopefully something will turn up.

I can read drive temp with smartmon, and they are fine.

One thing I have read is that I might have better luck if I upgraded  
the BIOS.

That requires Windows though.  I have tried a couple of "Windows Live"  
ISO images, but they won't boot on the Dell.

In fact, my 2006 copy of Windows XP Pro will not boot on the Dell, so  
I probably lack drivers for the chipset (nvidia pro 2000 or something).



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Shannon Hendrix
shannon at widomaker.com