sensorrd is a replacement for the problematic and abandoned sensord
component of the lm-sensors package.
When it disappeared from Debian, I wrote sensorrd to do what I was
using sensord for:
- To log alarms to syslog
- To populate values in RRD
sensorrd does all its logging to syslog (facility daemon).
The alarms are formatted to match what sensord did.
sensorrd [<rrdpath>]
In most cases, though, one should use systemd to run it. If the RRD path is omitted, it only logs to syslog.
If the specified RRD doesn't exist, sensorrd will create it
based on the available sensors.
The RRD should be compatible with ones created by and/or used by
sensord.
The method of RRD updates is more robust than sensord,
as it does not depend on the order of each DS in the RRD.
The default RRAs are as follows:
RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:1800 -- 30 hours of minutes
RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:5:2880 -- 10 days of 5 minutes
RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:60:960 -- 40 days of hours
RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1440:3653 -- 10 years of days
The basic procedure I used is:
make MODE=opt
sudo cp sensorrd /usr/local/sbin
sudo cp sensorrd.service /etc/systemd/system
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start sensorrd
sudo systemctl enable sensorrd
At least on Debian, these packages are needed for compilation:
libsensors4-devlibrrd-dev