7 Psensor is a graphical hardware monitoring application for Linux.
9 It draws realtime charts and raises alerts about:
11 * the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using
13 * the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl).
14 * the temperature of ATI GPUs (using ATI ADL SDK).
15 * the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp, libatasmart
17 * the rotation speed of the fans.
18 * the temperature of a remote computer.
21 Alerts are using Desktop Notification and a specific GTK+ status icon.
23 For Ubuntu users, Psensor is providing an Application Indicator which turns
24 red under alert and a menu for quickly check all sensors.
26 It is possible to monitor remotely a computer:
28 * start +psensor-server+ on the remote computer.
30 * start +psensor+ using: +psensor --url=http://hostname:3131+.
32 +psensor-server+ is a minimal Web server, a Web browser can be used to
33 monitor the remote computer by opening the URL:
34 +http://hostname:3131+.
37 +psensor-server+ does not provide any way to restrict the connection
38 to the HTTP server, worst, no effort has been made against malicious
39 HTTP attacks. You should make the +psensor-server+ port available
40 only to a network or computer you trust by using the usual network
41 security tools of the system (for example:
42 http://www.netfilter.org/projects/iptables/index.html[iptables]).
44 Installation Using Distribution Packages
45 ----------------------------------------
50 For Debian, the binary and source packages are available in the
51 Wheezy, unstable and testing repositories.
53 Debian package information is available at:
54 http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/psensor.html.
56 To do the installation:
57 --------------------------------------------
58 sudo apt-get install psensor psensor-server
59 --------------------------------------------
64 Since Ubuntu Oneiric (11.10), psensor is available in the universe
67 To install +psensor+ or +psensor-server+:
68 ------------------------------------
69 sudo apt-get install psensor
70 sudo apt-get install psensor-server
71 ------------------------------------
73 Or search them in the Ubuntu Software Center.
75 For other Ubuntu releases or user the more recent release, the easiest
76 way is to use the dedicated PPA.
79 -------------------------------------------------
80 sudo apt-get apt-add-repository ppa:/jfi/psensor
82 sudo apt-get install psensor
83 sudo apt-get install psensor-server
84 -------------------------------------------------
86 Last development version which should not contain major bugs:
87 ----------------------------------------------------------
88 sudo apt-get apt-add-repository ppa:/jfi/psensor-unstable
90 sudo apt-get install psensor
91 sudo apt-get install psensor-server
92 ----------------------------------------------------------
94 Daily trunk build which may contain major bugs and partialy
96 -------------------------------------------------------------
97 sudo apt-get apt-add-repository ppa:/jfi/psensor-daily-trunk
99 sudo apt-get install psensor
100 sudo apt-get install psensor-server
101 -------------------------------------------------------------
103 Installation From Source Archive
104 --------------------------------
106 +psensor+ and +psensor-server+ can be compiled and installed on any
107 modern GNU/Linux distribution.
109 Compilation Prerequisites
110 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
112 The compilation of +psensor+ requires:
120 * asciidoc (optional, required to produce the html version of the
122 * cppcheck (optional, static source checker)
123 * library libnotify (optional)
124 * library libappindicator (optional)
125 * library libXNVCtrl (optional)
126 * library json-c >= 0.11.99 and curl (optional, required for remote monitoring)
127 * library unity (>=v3.4.2, optional)
128 * library gtop2 (optional, required for CPU usage)
129 * library atasmart (optional, for disk monitoring)
130 * library udisk2 (optional, for disk monitoring)
132 The specific requirements for +psensor-server+:
134 * library libmicrohttpd
137 Compilation and Installation Steps
138 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
140 1. download the source archive from: http://wpitchoune.net/psensor/files
141 2. Extract files from the source archive
142 3. Compilation: +./configure;make clean all+
143 4. Installation: +make install+ (require to have root permission)
144 5. Start the sensor detection script: +sensors-detect+ and follows the
145 instructions. Reboot or activate the kernel modules which have
152 When the OpenSource ATI driver is used, the monitoring
153 information is available throw lm-sensors and does not require the
154 following instructions.
156 When the proprietary ATI driver(Catalyst) is used, the build is
157 requiring an additional library.
160 http://developer.amd.com/sdks/ADLSDK/Pages/default.aspx[ATI ADL SDK]
161 and extracts the files of the archive into a directory [dir].
163 Replace the step 3. of the above section by +./configure
164 --with-libatiadl=[dir]+ where +[dir]+ must be the directory where you
165 have extracted the ATI ADL SDK. Other steps are indentical.
170 Bugs and comments can be sent to jeanfi@gmail.com.
172 Home page: http://wpitchoune.net/psensor