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@ -5,11 +5,29 @@ It's written in Bash and uses *nix "sensors" and some sed & awk.
Default is to check the CPU temperature but this can be changed to, for example,
the motherboard temperature with a "--sensor" argument.
The plugin complies with the guidelines, for example uses -w -c -v arguments
etc. It also does some basic sanity checks and has a exit 3 catchall.
etc. It also does some basic sanity checks and has a exit 3 catch-all.
The plugin was submitted to Nagios Exchange in 2011.
Known forks of check_temp:
There is a very good Perl fork of check_temp written by Chad Columbus. It's
avalible on Nagios Exchange at
available on Nagios Exchange at
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Operating-Systems/Linux/check_temp-2Epl/details
Required:
1) Install lm-sensors:
a) On Debian/Ubuntu... apt-get install lm-sensors
2) Run sensors-detect:
sudo sensors-detect
Let it check for any sensors that you feel are necessary, or all. You can just
press <ENTER> to have it use the default option for each check. There is a
warning in the manpages (man sensors-detect) that there are (some rare)
hardware sensors that may lock up or even be permanently damaged, so be aware
of that.
3) Restart module-init-tools service
a) /etc/init.d/module-init-tools restart
or
b) service module-init-tools restart

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# Latest version of check_temp can be found at the below URL: #
# https://bitbucket.org/jackbenny/check_temp #
# #
# If you are having problems getting it to work, check the instructions in #
# the README first. It walks you though install lm-sensors and getting it to #
# display sensor data. #
# #
###############################################################################
VERSION="Version 0.8"