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BSDHWMON(8) System Manager's Manual BSDHWMON(8) NAME bsdhwmon -- hardware sensor monitoring utility SYNOPSIS bsdhwmon [-Jhlv] [-f device] DESCRIPTION bsdhwmon is a user-land application which communicates via SMBus with hard- ware monitoring ICs on motherboards. Many different pieces of information can be returned, but the most common are fan RPMs, processor and system temperatures, and motherboard voltages. All data is sent to standard out- put. At this time, bsdhwmon supports a multitude of Winbond hardware monitoring ICs, predominantly on Supermicro motherboards. The options are as follows: -J Output data in a JSON-compliant format. -c Output data in a comma-delimited format. Sensor name, its value, and the associated unit (V for volts, C for Celsius, RPM for rota- tions per minute, etc.) are individual parameters. -f device Specify an alternate SMBus device. Default is /dev/smb0. -l List motherboards supported by bsdhwmon. -h Help or usage syntax. -v Increase verbosity (includes debugging output). REQUIREMENTS bsdhwmon requires a few hardware and software features to function: 1. A system BIOS that provides a SMBIOS table. Specifically, the exis- tence of the smbios.planar.maker and smbios.planar.product kenv(2) kernel environment strings. You can verify the existence of these variables by using kenv(1). 2. device smb built into your kernel or loaded using kldload(8), 3. device smbus built into your kernel or loaded using kldload(8), 4. An appropriate SMBus chipset driver, such as amdsmb(4), ichsmb(4), or nfsmb(4), built into your kernel or loaded via kldload(8). Failure to meet all of the above requirements will result in bsdhwmon not functioning. OUTPUT bsdhwmon attempts to mimic output formatting and sensor strings to that of the BIOS's Hardware Monitoring menu option (if available). However, due to limited hardware availability and user beta testing, some strings may not match the BIOS exactly (such as "PECI Agent" being replaced with "CPU Core"). For example, a Supermicro PDSMi+ motherboard might output something like this: CPU Temperature 34 C System Temperature 36 C FAN1 0 RPM FAN2 0 RPM FAN3 0 RPM FAN4 2000 RPM FAN5 1527 RPM FAN6 1785 RPM Vcore 1.198 V +1.5V 1.540 V -12V -12.288 V Vdimm 1.824 V +3.3V 3.344 V +12V 12.000 V 5Vsb 5.046 V 5VDD 4.974 V P_VTT 1.206 V Vbat 3.184 V While an older Supermicro P8SC8 might output this: CPU Temperature 33 C System Temperature 37 C FAN1 4963 RPM FAN2 0 RPM FAN3 0 RPM FAN4 0 RPM FAN5 0 RPM Processor Vcore(V) 1.360 V 3.3V Vcc(V) 3.320 V 5V Vcc(V) 3.044 V -12V Vcc(V) -12.288 V 12V Vcc(V) 12.432 V 5VSB 4.896 V VBAT 3.104 V Slight differentials in sensor values (e.g. a few degrees, voltage fluctua- tions, or RPM variance) are normal. Operating systems often make use of system and processor which may halt processors while idling (e.g. x86 "HLT" opcode), or make use of C1 through C4 power-saving states; powerd(8) on FreeBSD is known to do this. System BIOSes are known to offer the ability to throttle fan speed based on load. Please refer to your System User Man- ual for details. Large/severe differences between what the system BIOS and bsdhwmon reports should be reported as a bug (e.g. -12.107 V shown in the BIOS, while bsdhwmon reports +37.000 V). EXIT STATUS The bsdhwmon utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. SEE ALSO kenv(1), amdsmb(4), ichsmb(4), nfsmb(4), smb(4), smbus(4), kldload(8) AUTHOR Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org> BUGS Some Supermicro systems using the Winbond W83792D chipset may report incor- rect +5V voltages; the Supermicro P8SC8 and P8SCT motherboards are such ex- amples. This is caused by a faulty formula used to calculate voltages from IC registers. The formulas used are not officially documented, and the ac- tual circuitry (resistors, etc.) tied to the pins on the Winbond chip do not match what Winbond used in their documentation. Formula documentation has been requested of Supermicro, but no response has been received at this time. There has been an isolated report of a Supermicro P8SCi system occasionally reporting extremely high RPMs (in the tens of thousands) for some fans. The reason for this is unknown, but the values being returned from the Win- bond chipset do appear correct. If you're experiencing this bug, please get in contact with the author. Git commit ad3bbad may have rectified this bug. CONTRIBUTORS The following individuals have made contributions to bsdhwmon, either by helping with the code, testing the software, or recommending features: Tony Allevato, Mike Andrews, Alan Bryan, Gergely Czuczy, Michael Fuckner, M. Giegerich, Matthew Herzog, Dan Naumov, Billy Newsom, Daniel O'Connor, Alexey V. Panfilov, Jim Perry, Jim Pingle, Patrick Proniewski, Matt Reimer, Larry Rosenman, Ulrich Spoerlein, Evren Yurtesen Additional thanks to SHIMIZU Yoshifumi, author of mbmon, for providing BSD hardware monitoring support on older x86 hardware, and to the Linux lm_sen- sors project, for providing an unofficial secondary source of IC documenta- tion and details of chip quirks. FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly April 29, 2015 BSDHWMON(8)
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