{"id":13863,"date":"2019-04-06T12:12:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T12:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/?p=13863"},"modified":"2019-04-06T12:12:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T12:12:54","slug":"psensor-a-graphical-hardware-temperature-monitoring-tool-for-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2019\/04\/06\/psensor-a-graphical-hardware-temperature-monitoring-tool-for-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Psensor \u2013 A Graphical Hardware Temperature Monitoring Tool for Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psensor<\/strong>\u00a0is a GTK+ (Widget Toolkit for creating Graphical User Interface) based application software. It is one the simplest application to monitor hardware temperature and plot Real Time graph from the obtained data for quick review.<\/p>\n

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\"Linux<\/a><\/p>\n

Psensor \u2013 Linux Hardware Temperature Monitoring<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Features of Psensor<\/h4>\n
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  1. Show Temperature of motherboard, CPU, GPU (Nvidia), Hard Disk Drives.<\/li>\n
  2. Show CPU fan speed.<\/li>\n
  3. Psensor is capable of showing remote server Temperature and Fan Speed.<\/li>\n
  4. Show CPU usages, as well.<\/li>\n
  5. Infact Psensor will detect any supported Hardware and report the Temperature as text and over graph, automatically.<\/li>\n
  6. All the temperatures are plotted in one graph.<\/li>\n
  7. Alarms and Alerts ensures you don\u2019t miss a critical System Hardware Temperature and Fan Speed related issues.<\/li>\n
  8. Easy to Configure. Easy to use.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Dependencies<\/h4>\n
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    1. lm-sensor and hddtemp:<\/strong>\u00a0: Psensor depends upon these two packages to get the reports about temperature and fan speed.<\/li>\n
    2. psensor-server<\/strong>\u00a0: It is an optional package, which is required if you want to gather information about Remote Server Temperature and Fan Speed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Installation of Psensor in Linux<\/h3>\n

      1.<\/strong>\u00a0As I said above that\u00a0Psensor<\/strong>\u00a0program depends on\u00a0lm-sensor<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0hddtemp<\/strong>\u00a0package and these two packages must installed on the system in order to install Psensor.<\/p>\n

      Both these two packages are available in the official repository of most of the standard Linux distributions, but in RedHat\/CentOS based systems, you need to install and enable\u00a0epel-release<\/strong>\u00a0repository to get these packages.<\/p>\n

      On Debian, Ubuntu and Mint<\/h4>\n
      # apt-get install lm-sensors hddtemp\r\n<\/pre>\n
      On RedHat, CentOS and Fedora<\/h4>\n
      # yum install epel-release \r\n# yum install lm_sensors lm_sensors-devel hddtemp\r\n<\/pre>\n
      Note<\/strong>: If you are using\u00a0Fedora 22<\/strong>, replace\u00a0yum<\/strong>\u00a0with\u00a0dnf<\/a>\u00a0in above command.<\/p>\n
      2.<\/strong>\u00a0Once these two dependencies installed on the system, you can install\u00a0Psensor<\/strong>\u00a0on Debian alike systems using following commands.<\/p>\n
      # apt-get install psensor\r\n<\/pre>\n
      Unfortunately, on\u00a0RedHat<\/strong>\u00a0alike systems,\u00a0Psensor<\/strong>\u00a0isn\u2019t available from the default system repository, and you need to compile it from source as shown below.<\/p>\n
      # yum install gcc gtk3-devel GConf2-devel cppcheck libatasmart-devel libcurl-devel json-c-devel libmicrohttpd-devel help2man libnotify-devel libgtop2-devel make \r\n<\/pre>\n
      Next, download the most recent stable\u00a0Psensor<\/strong>\u00a0(i.e version\u00a01.1.3<\/strong>) source tarball and compile it using following commands.<\/p>\n
      # wget http:\/\/wpitchoune.net\/psensor\/files\/psensor-1.1.3.tar.gz \r\n# tar zxvf psensor-1.1.3.tar.gz \r\n# cd psensor-1.1.3\/ \r\n# .\/configure \r\n# make \r\n# make install\r\n<\/pre>\n
      3.<\/strong>\u00a0Install\u00a0Psensor Server<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 optional. It is required only if you want to see the temperature and fan speed of remote server.<\/p>\n
      # apt-get install psensor-server\r\n<\/pre>\n
      Note<\/strong>: That the\u00a0Psensor Server<\/strong>\u00a0package is only available under Debian alike systems, there isn\u2019t any binary or source packages available for RedHat systems.<\/p>\n
      Testing and Usage of Psensor<\/h3>\n
      4.<\/strong>\u00a0It is optional but suggestive step you should follow. Run\u00a0sensors-detect<\/code>, as root to diagnose the hardware\u2019s by sensors. Every Time Type the default option \u2018Yes\u2019, until you know what you are doing.<\/p>\n
      # sensors-detect\r\n<\/pre>\n
      \n
      \"Detect<\/a><\/p>\n
      Detect Sensors<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      5.<\/strong>\u00a0Again Optional but suggestive setup you should follow. Run\u00a0sensors<\/code>, as root to display the temperature of various Hardware Devices. All these Data will be used for Psensor.<\/p>\n
      # sensors\r\n<\/pre>\n
      \n
      \"Check<\/a><\/p>\n
      Check Temperature Hardware<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      6.<\/strong>\u00a0Run\u00a0Psensor<\/strong>, from the desktop\u00a0Application Menu<\/strong>\u00a0to get the graphical view.<\/p>\n
      \n
      \"Temperature<\/a><\/p>\n
      Temperature Hardware Monitoring<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      Check mark all the Sensors to plot graph. You may notice the color codes.<\/p>\n
      \n
      \"Plot<\/a><\/p>\n
      Plot Graphs of Hardware Temperature<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      Customize Psensor<\/h3>\n
      7.<\/strong>\u00a0Go to\u00a0Menu Psensor<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Preferences<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Interface<\/strong>. From here, you can have options for Interface related customization, Temperature Unit and Sensor table Position.<\/p>\n
      \n
      \"Psensor<\/a><\/p>\n
      Psensor Interface Customization<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      8.<\/strong>\u00a0Under\u00a0Menu Psensor<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Preferences<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Startup<\/strong>. From here, you can configure Launch\/Hide at Startup and Restore Window Position and Size.<\/p>\n
      \n
      \"Control<\/a><\/p>\n
      Control Psensor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      9.<\/strong>\u00a0Under the Hood Graph (Psensor<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Preferences<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Graph<\/strong>), you may configure Foreground\/Background Color, Monitoring Duration, Update Interval, etc.<\/p>\n
      \n
      \"Psensor<\/a><\/p>\n
      Psensor Graph Customization<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      10.<\/strong>\u00a0You may configure\u00a0Sensors Settings<\/strong>\u00a0under (Psensor<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Preference<\/strong>s \u2192\u00a0Sensors<\/strong>).<\/p>\n
      \n
      \"Sensors<\/a><\/p>\n
      Sensors Settings<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      11.<\/strong>\u00a0The last tab (Psensor<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Preferences<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Providers<\/strong>) provides you with Enable\/Disable configuration for all the sensors.<\/p>\n
      \n
      \"Psensor<\/a><\/p>\n
      Psensor Configuration Control<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      You may do sensor\u00a0Preferences<\/strong>\u00a0under (Psensor<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Sensor Preferences<\/strong>).<\/p>\n
      \n
      \"Give<\/a><\/p>\n
      Give Sensor Name<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      \n
      \"Give<\/a><\/p>\n
      Give Sensor Color<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      \n
      \"Set<\/a><\/p>\n
      Set Sensor Threshold<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      \n
      \"Enable<\/a><\/p>\n
      Enable Sensor Indicator<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
      Conclusion<\/h3>\n
      Psensor<\/strong>\u00a0is a very useful tool which lets you see those gray areas of system monitoring which is often overlooked upon i.e., Hardware temperature monitoring. A over heating Hardware may damage that particular hardware, other hardware in the surrounding or may crash the whole system.<\/p>\n
      No, I am not thinking from financial perspective. Think of the value of Data that might loose and the cost and time it will take to build the system again. Hence it is always a good idea to have a tool like\u00a0Psensor<\/strong>\u00a0beside ourselves to avoid any such risk.<\/p>\n
      Installation on\u00a0Debian<\/strong>\u00a0alike system is pretty simple. For\u00a0CentOS<\/strong>\u00a0and alike System, installation is a bit tricky.<\/p>\n
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