mbmon(1)

NAME
mbmon - MotherBoard Monitor

SYNOPSIS
mbmon [options] <seconds for sleep> (default 5 sec)

This manual page documents briefly the mbmon command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

Recent motherboards have functionalities to monitor the CPU temperatures and the frequency of CPU cooling fans etc. Although some programs utilizing these hardware monitoring facilities have been developed for the Microsoft Windows platforms, no programs seem to exist for PC-UNIX and the X Windows System platforms.

mbmon used at the command line reports the temperatures, voltages and rpm (rounds per minute) of cooling fans. It can also be used remotly via telnet, thanks to the "-P" option.

OPTIONS

-h  Show summary of options.

-V, -S, -I, -A
    Access method (using "VIA686 HWM directly"|"SMBus"|"ISA I/O port"|"All this methods").

-d  Debug mode (any other options except (V|S|I) will be ignored).

-e [0-2]
    set extra temperature sensor to temp. Need -A.

-p chip
    For probing chips. chip=winbond|wl784|via686|it87|gl52|lm85|lm80|lm90|lm75

-Y  For Tyan Tiger MP/MPX motherboard.

-f  Display temperature in Fahrenheit.

-c count
    Repeat <count> times and exit.

-P port
    Run in daemon mode, using given port for clients.

-T|F [1-7]
    print Temperature|Fanspeed according to following styles:
            style1: data1
            style2: data2
            style3: data3
            style4: data1ata2
            style5: data1ata3
            style6: data2ata3
            style7: data1ata2ata3

-r  Print TAG and Value format.

-u  Print system uptime.

-t  Print present time.

-n, -N
    print hostname (long|short style).

-i  Print integers in the summary (with -T option).

EXEMPLES
mbmon -P 11000; telnet localhost 11000; sudo killall mbmon
mbmon -c1
mbmon 1 (yeah, real time baby !)

SEE ALSO
/usr/local/share/doc/mbmon/*

AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Nicolas Rueff <n.rueff@tuxfamily.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).