= Psensor README :docinfo2:
Psensor is a graphical hardware monitoring application for Linux.
It draws realtime charts and raises alerts about:
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:
start +psensor-server+ on the remote computer.
start +psensor+ using: +psensor --url=http://hostname:3131+.
+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] +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: http://www.netfilter.org/projects/iptables/index.html[iptables]).
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:
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sudo apt-get install psensor psensor-server
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Ubuntu
Since Ubuntu Oneiric (11.10), psensor is available in the universe repository of Ubuntu.
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.
+psensor+ and +psensor-server+ can be compiled and installed on any modern GNU/Linux distribution.
Compilation Prerequisites
The compilation of +psensor+ requires:
* make
* gcc (or llvm)
* lm-sensors
* library sensors4
* library gtk3 >=3.4
* help2man (optional, required to produce the manpage)
* asciidoc (optional, required to produce the html version of the
faq)
* cppcheck (optional, static source checker)
* library libnotify (optional)
* library libappindicator >= 3.0 (optional)
* library libXNVCtrl (optional)
* library json-c >= 0.11.99 and curl (optional, required for remote monitoring)
* library unity (>=v3.4.2, optional)
* library gtop2 (optional, required for CPU usage)
* library atasmart (optional, for disk monitoring)
* library udisk2 (optional, for disk monitoring)
The specific requirements for +psensor-server+:
* library libmicrohttpd
* library json-c >= 0.11.99
Compilation and Installation Steps
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
http://developer.amd.com/sdks/ADLSDK/Pages/default.aspx[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.
Contact
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Bugs and comments can be sent to jeanfi@gmail.com.
Home page: http://wpitchoune.net/psensor