Psensor – Monitor Linux Hardware Temperature

Psensor is a GTK+ (Widget Toolkit for creating Graphical User Interface) based application software that is used to monitor hardware temperature and plot Real-Time graphs from the obtained data for quick review.

Features of Psensor

• Show the temperature of the motherboard, CPU, GPU (Nvidia), and Hard Disk Drives.
• Show CPU fan speed.
• Psensor is capable of showing remote server temperature and fan speed.
• Show Linux CPU usage, as well.
• In fact, Psensor will detect any supported hardware and report the temperature as text and over a graph, automatically.
• All the temperatures are plotted in one graph.
• Alarms and Alerts ensure you don’t miss critical system hardware temperature and fan speed-related issues.
• It is easy to configure and use.

Dependencies

• lm-sensor and hddtemp – Psensor depends upon these two packages to get the reports about temperature and fan speed.
• psensor-server – It is an optional package, which is required if you want to gather information about remote server temperature and fan speed.

Installation

# install dependencies of psensor
sudo apt install lm-sensors hddtemp -y
# install psensor
sudo apt install psensor -y
# install psensor-server which is required only if you want to see the temperature and fan speed of the remote server.
sudo apt install psensor-server -y

Psensor – Monitor Linux Hardware Temperature from CLI

It is an optional but suggestive step you should run sensors-detect as root to diagnose the hardware by sensors and type the default option ‘Yes’ until you know what you are doing.

sudo sensors-detect
/etc/init.d/kmod start
sensors

Ref: TecMint