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Howto Monitor SMART and sensor data with Munin

After installing a new heatsink in a machine I realized that although I had munin monitoring the machine I did not have the sensor data necessary to compare the performance on the new heatsink to the old one. So I decided to add that monitoring data as well as monitoring data for the hard drive temperature and SMART statistics. Here’s what I did on a 64-bit Ubuntu 7.10 (Gusty Gibbon) system.

* sudo apt-get install lm-sensors
* sudo apt-get install smartmontools
* sudo sensors-detect
o I just say “yes” to all questions, including the final one which defaults to “no” about adding the modules to your /etc/modules file.
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