guardcat

Introduction

guardcat is a Perl script intended to monitor, log, alert, and/or control PC hardware sensors and fans.

guardcat is likely of interest mostly to those running Linux systems. While the script should, in theory, be able to run on any POSIX-compatible system, the input routines assume something like Linux's hwmon API to obtain sensor readings.

Download: guardcat-1.12.28.tar.gz

Features

• Built-in support for finding and reading "hwmon" sensors
• Read values from arbitrary files
• Read values from external programs
• Raise alerts if the readings go outside of limits you define
• Alerts can be indicated using any of:
  • syslog(3)
  • mail(1)
  • wall(1)
• Log sensor readings to a data log file periodically
• Control fan speed in response to temperature inputs
• Write arbitrary values to arbitrary files at startup and/or shutdown
• All these features are optional and configurable

Manual Pages

These files are also included in the distribution kit.

• guardcat(8) — Main program
• guardcat.conf(5) — Configuration file

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