NAME

       mbmon - MotherBoard Monitor

SYNOPSIS

       mbmon [options] <seconds for sleep> (default 5 sec)

       This  manual  page  documents briefly the mbmon command.  This manual page was written for
       the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       Recent motherboards have functionalities to monitor the CPU temperatures and the frequency
       of  CPU  cooling  fans  etc.   Although  some programs utilizing these hardware monitoring
       facilities have been developed for the Microsoft Windows platforms, no  programs  seem  to
       exist for PC-UNIX and the X Windows System platforms.

       mbmon  used  at  the  command  line reports the temperatures, voltages and rpm (rounds per
       minute) of cooling fans. It can also be used remotely  via  telnet,  thanks  to  the  "-P"
       option.

OPTIONS

       -h     Show summary of options.

       -V, -S, -I, -A
              Access  method  (using  "VIA686  HWM  directly"|"SMBus"|"ISA  I/O  port"|"All  this
              methods").

       -d     Debug mode (any other options except (V|S|I) will be ignored).

       -e [0-2]
              set extra temperature sensor to temp. Need -A.

       -p chip
              For probing chips. chip=winbond|wl784|via686|it87|gl52|lm85|lm80|lm90|lm75

       -Y     For Tyan Tiger MP/MPX motherboard.

       -f     Display temperature in Fahrenheit.

       -c count
              Repeat <count> times and exit.

       -P port
              Run in daemon mode, using given port for clients.

       -T|F [1-7]
              print Temperature|Fanspeed according to following styles:
                      style1: data1
                      style2: data2
                      style3: data3
                      style4: data1 data2
                      style5: data1 data3
                      style6: data2 data3
                      style7: data1 data2 data3

       -r     Print TAG and Value format.

       -u     Print system uptime.

       -t     Print present time.

       -n, -N print hostname (long|short style).

       -i     Print integers in the summary (with -T option).

EXAMPLES

       mbmon -P 11000; telnet localhost 11000; sudo killall mbmon
       mbmon -c1
       mbmon 1 (yeah, real time baby !)

SEE ALSO

       /usr/share/doc/mbmon/*

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Nicolas  Rueff  <n.rueff@tuxfamily.org>,  for  the  Debian
       project (but may be used by others).

                                        November 10, 2003                                mbmon(1)