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HEALTHD(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual HEALTHD(8)

healthd
Motherboard “health” monitor

healthd [-BLVdl] [-f configfile] [-1|2] [-4] [-6] [-c count] [-t count] [-P port] [delay]

This program provides a facility to read values from the hardware monitoring circuitry on modern motherboards and report when the results are outside of acceptable bounds set in a configuration file.

Healthd normally runs in the background and reports error conditions via the syslogd(8) facility. If the “-d” flag is specified, healthd with not become a daemon, but will stay in the foreground and display the values for all parameters. This maybe useful to characterize the normal range for a motherboard.

Currently will try it to determine the chipset type, if not is detected it will default to W83782D, unless over-ridden by the “-1” flag. It can detect W83781D, W83782D, W83783S, LM78, LM79 and the AS99127F. The AS99127F is SMB only, it has no ISA connection.

The following command line options are available.
Use the ISA bus to access the hardware monitor (Default).
Use the SMB to access the hardware monitor. This my require additional lines to be added to the kernel and the kernel to be rebuilt.
Use the Vbat input on the W83782D type chips for the CPU core voltage of the second CPU.
Do not detach and become a daemon. Remain running in the foreground and display all readings in debug mode.
Only bind the the loopback interfaces, instead of all available network interfaces.
config_file
File name of the configuration file to be used.
Specify the Winbond 83781D, or equivalent, monitor chip (default).
Specify the Winbond 83782D, or equivalent, monitor chip.
Don't accept connections on IPv4 addresses.
Don't accept connections on IPv6 addresses. This is only available if the systems supports IPv6. The default is IPv4 and IPv6.
port
Use a different port then the default 1281. This is a different port than previous versions. The older versions used 9669, however 1281 is the official port number.
count
Repeat the display count times, then exit. This implies the -d flag.
count
Repeat the display count times. This is very similar to -c, except the output is a single, tab delimited line. This format is more useful to be read by another program. This implies the -d flag.
Local Only mode. Don't open any network listening sockets to be used by the healthdc program.
Display the current version and exit.
<delay>
The number of seconds between readings of the values. The default is 5 seconds.

To use the SMB interface the following lines must be added to the kernel. And the kernel will need to be rebuilt. The ASUS AS99127F chip does not have an ISA interface and therefore must have SMB capability in the kernel. NOTE: This is only for 4.x versions of FreeBSD.
smbus0
iicbus0
iicbb0
intpm0
smb0 at smbus?

Healthd also monitors TCP port 1281 for information requests from healthdc. If the system has libwrap installed then it will be used to control access to the healthd daemon.

The following signal have the specified effect when sent to the daemon process using the kill(1) command:
Causes daemon to read healthd.conf or the file specified on the commnd line with the -f option. The counts of values that were out of bounds are also reset.

This file specifies which parameters are active, what they are and their acceptable range. There are 13 different objects that are monitored. Three temperatures, three fan speeds and seven voltages. Each object has four configuration items: active, label, min and max.
Name Type
Temp0_active yes/no
Temp0_label string
Temp0_min float
Temp0_max float
Temp1_active yes/no
Temp1_label string
Temp1_min float
Temp1_max float
Temp2_active yes/no
Temp2_label string
Temp2_min float
Temp2_max float
Temp_warn string
Temp_fail string
Fan0_active yes/no
Fan0_label string
Fan0_min integer
Fan0_max integer
Fan1_active yes/no
Fan1_label string
Fan1_min integer
Fan1_max integer
Fan2_active yes/no
Fan2_label string
Fan2_min integer
Fan2_max integer
Fan_warn string
Fan_fail string
Volt0_active yes/no
Volt0_label string
Volt0_min float
Volt0_max float
Volt1_active yes/no
Volt1_label string
Volt1_min float
Volt1_max float
Volt2_active yes/no
Volt2_label string
Volt2_min float
Volt2_max float
Volt3_active yes/no
Volt3_label string
Volt3_min float
Volt3_max float
Volt4_active yes/no
Volt4_label string
Volt4_min float
Volt4_max float
Volt5_active yes/no
Volt5_label string
Volt5_min float
Volt5_max float
Volt6_active yes/no
Volt6_label string
Volt6_min float
Volt6_max float
Volt_warn string
Volt_fail string

/usr/local/etc/healthd.conf
Configuration file

hosts_access(5), hosts_options(5), healthdc(8)
August 16, 2004 FreeBSD

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