1. Introduction
+Psensor is a graphical hardware monitoring application for Linux.
It draws realtime charts and raises alerts about:
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+the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using + lm-sensors). +
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+the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl). +
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+the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp or libatasmart). +
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+the rotation speed of the fans (using lm-sensors). +
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+the temperature of a remote computer. +
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+the cpu load. +
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Alerts are using Desktop Notification and a specific GTK+ status icon.
For Ubuntu users, Psensor is providing an Application Indicator which turns +red under alert and a menu for quickly check all sensors.
It is possible to monitor remotely a computer:
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+start psensor-server on the remote computer. +
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+start psensor using: psensor --url=http://hostname:3131. +
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psensor-server is a minimal Web server, a Web browser can be used to +monitor the remote computer by opening the URL: +http://hostname:3131.
+ Warning
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+psensor-server does not provide any way to restrict the connection +to the HTTP server, worst, no effort has been made against malicious +HTTP attacks. You should make the psensor-server port available +only to a network or computer you trust by using the usual network +security tools of the system (for example: +iptables). | +
2. Installation Using Distribution Packages
+2.1. Debian
+For Debian, the binary and source packages are available in the +Wheezy, unstable and testing repositories.
Debian package information is available at: +http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/psensor.html.
To do the installation:
sudo apt-get install psensor psensor-server+
2.2. Ubuntu
+Since Ubuntu Oneiric (11.10), psensor is available in the universe +repository of Ubuntu.
To install psensor or psensor-server:
sudo apt-get install psensor +sudo apt-get install psensor-server+
Or search them in the Ubuntu Software Center.
For other Ubuntu releases or user the more recent release, the easiest +way is to use the dedicated PPA.
Last stable version:
sudo apt-get apt-add-repository ppa:/jfi/psensor +sudo apt-get update +sudo apt-get install psensor +sudo apt-get install psensor-server+
Last development version which should not contain major bugs:
sudo apt-get apt-add-repository ppa:/jfi/psensor-unstable +sudo apt-get update +sudo apt-get install psensor +sudo apt-get install psensor-server+
Daily trunk build which may contain major bugs and partialy +implemented features:
sudo apt-get apt-add-repository ppa:/jfi/psensor-daily-trunk +sudo apt-get update +sudo apt-get install psensor +sudo apt-get install psensor-server+
3. Installation From Source Archive
+psensor and psensor-server can be compiled and installed on any +modern GNU/Linux distribution.
3.1. Compilation Prerequisites
+The compilation of psensor requires:
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+make +
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+library sensors4 +
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+library gtk3 >=3.4 +
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+library gconf2 +
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+help2man +
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+asciidoc (optional, required to produce the html version of the + faq) +
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+cppcheck (optional, static source checker) +
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+library libnotify (optional) +
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+library libappindicator (optional) +
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+library libXNVCtrl (optional) +
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+library json0 and curl (optional, required for remote monitoring) +
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+library unity (>=v3.4.2, optional) +
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+library gtop2 (optional, required for CPU usage) +
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+library atasmart (optional, for disk monitoring) +
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For Debian 7.0:
sudo apt-get install asciidoc cppcheck gcc gettext libgtk-3-dev +libgconf2-dev libnotify-dev libsensors4-dev help2man +libcurl4-openssl-dev libjson0-dev libmicrohttpd-dev libgtop2-dev +libatasmart-dev make+
For Fedora 17:
sudo yum install gcc gtk3-devel GConf2-devel lm_sensors-devel cppcheck +libatasmart-devel libcurl-devel json-c-devel libmicrohttpd-devel +help2man libnotify-devel libgtop2-devel make+
For Ubuntu 12.10:
sudo apt-get install asciidoc autoconf automake autopoint +debhelper (>= 9) cppcheck gettext help2man libappindicator3-dev +libatasmart-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libgconf2-dev libgtk-3-dev +libgtop2-dev libjson0-dev libmicrohttpd-dev libnotify-dev +libsensors4-dev libunity-dev nvidia-settings perl+
3.2. Compilation and Installation Steps
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+download the source archive from: http://wpitchoune.net/psensor/files +
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+Extract files from the source archive +
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+Compilation: ./configure;make clean all +
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+Installation: make install (require to have root permission) +
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+Start the sensor detection script: sensors-detect and follows the +instructions. Reboot or activate the kernel modules which have +been found. +
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+To monitor HDDs, the hddtemp daemon must be installed and running. +
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+Run: psensor +
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3.3. ATI/AMD GPU Support
+When the OpenSource ATI driver is used, the monitoring +information is available throw lm-sensors and does not require the +following instructions.
When the proprietary ATI driver(Catalyst) is used, the build is +requiring an additional library.
Download the +ATI ADL SDK +and extracts the files of the archive into a directory [dir].
Replace the step 3. of the above section by ./configure +--with-libatiadl=[dir] where [dir] must be the directory where you +have extracted the ATI ADL SDK. Other steps are indentical.
4. Contact
+Bugs and comments can be sent to jeanfi@gmail.com.
Home page: http://wpitchoune.net/psensor