System and CPU temperature widget with default alert

Comments: 13

• 09 Oct, '18
  mtarbox Merged

  I know that my box has at least 5 different temperature sensors that could be tapped to see how warm the box is running, and if it needs supplemental cooling(it's fanless, but does it need a fan blowing on it)?

• 18 Oct, '18
  Mark Merged

  And fan speed graphs. Check ipfire

• 07 Feb, '19
  LorenzoC

  Great suggestion, CPU temperature alerting insures Untangle NG's uptime or availability proactively.

• 09 Apr, '19
  Orly Merged

  Definitely... system and CPU temps on the dashboard. My Untangle runs on a lowly HP G7 Microserver which has an ambient temp limit of 35°C. It has twice shutdown due to overheating (amber health LED). I've added some ventilation but it'll be ideal to be able to actually monitor the temp so I can assess which cooling approach would work best.

• 25 Jul, '19
  Devin

  Would love this - being able to see if my system fans have failed - either via a RPM sensor, or a CPU temperature sensor would be extremely helpful in managing my deployment.

• 28 Sep, '19
  Hizar Merged

  I have Untangle running on a miniPC with no fans. I've kept in the living room out of sight because this room in centrally air-conditioned.
  
  It would be nice though to know what the temperature of the CPU is and be alerted if it goes over a set limit. There are linux apps available already that do this - so would expect this to be a pretty straightforward CR...
  
  Thanks!

• 30 Sep, '19
  Admin

  "Temperature sensors" (suggested by mtarbox on 2018-10-09), including upvotes (37) and comments (2), was merged into this suggestion.

• 30 Sep, '19
  Admin

  "Temperature monitoring" (suggested by Hizar on 2019-09-28), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 26 Apr, '20
  Roy D. Mercer

  I am trying out Untangle now. What a disappointment it is to know I can't monitor my CPU temperature. This have an excellent dashboard and CPU temperatures should be shown. I would be happy if I could at least see them in the terminal. I spent a lot of money on this build and don't want it filling up with dust. As a result I would like to keep my fans off as often as possible but I have no idea what my CPU temperatures is. I can see it in BIOS, but that is without a load.

• 12 Jun, '20
  Matt

  Why oh why oh why can you not at least put lm-sensors in the untangle repository and poll it into a status widget? ok, it may not be a 100% coverage solution but at least it'll give something to 90% of us.
  
  I'd happily accept that as a stop gap whilst you work on a full solution.

• 28 Jun, '20
  Andy

  Why do you need a temp sensor? Run the untangle on a fast computer. I have many in the field and never have I worried about temperature. Why, because I size the hardware appropriately.

• 16 Dec, '20
  Mike

  Every year or so when I install a new untangle somewhere I look this feature up and am always sad to see it has still never been addressed. It would be such a simple feature to add-in and I am really curious what the holdup is. I first looked for this feature over a decade ago when I started using untangle. Is there a problem deciding on how to implement it or something? There are solid documented ways to read this data across > 99% of untangle compatible hardware, countless server dashboards do this already, I am simply baffled.
  
  As for why? Sometimes fans fail, silicon degrades, thermal paste dries up. We are talking about hardware likely meant to live untouched for > 5 years. Being able to check temps (and get alerts) would be a great way to determine if a problem is slowly occurring over time. But really, why not? What is the harm in adding temperature monitoring when so many people clearly want it?

• 31 Dec, '20
  Jeff

  Yes please provide hardware monitoring: temp sensors and fans is a must also, power might be nice.... what ever you have access to please pipe them though the dashboard, even if it's memory and hard drive temps. Else our only option to check on things is to reboot to bios taking the system offline, and by then the readings are no longer revelent to an actual load of the system....