psensor install centos

psensor install centos


Psensor enable to get temperature of CPU via HTTP / JSON.

More detail on psensor is available here.

http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/

This post is about compiling psensor from source and installing in CENTOS 6.4, 64 bit.

Note:

You must be logged in as root user to proceed with installation

First install the following dependencies:

yum install lm_sensors
yum install lm_sensors-devel.x86_64
yum install gtkhtml2.x86_64
yum install json-c.x86_64
yum install libatasmart.x86_64 libatasmart-devel.x86_64 libmicrohttpd
yum install libnotify.x86_64 libnotify-devel.x86_64
yum install json-c-devel.x86_64 json-c.x86_64
yum install libmicrohttpd.x86_64 libmicrohttpd-devel.x86_64
yum install json-c.x86_64 json-c-devel.x86_64  json-c-devel.i686 json-c.i686
yum install libgtop2.x86_64 libgtop2-devel.x86_64
yum install  GConf2-devel.x86_64 GConf2-gtk.x86_64

Get the latest source from here. Version - 1.0.2

http://wpitchoune.net/psensor/files/psensor-last-stable.tar.gz

tar -xzvf  psensor-last-stable.tar.gz
cd psensor-1.0.2
./configure
make
make install

While running configure, note error / warning.
Since an error / warning may prevent compiling of the Server component.

While running configure,I got this error.

checking for APPINDICATOR... no
configure: WARNING: AppIndicator 3-0.1 not present
checking for APPINDICATOR... no
configure: WARNING: AppIndicator 0.2.9 not present
checking for APPINDICATOR... no
configure: WARNING: "AppIndicator > 0.2.9 not present 

From the group forum, they suggested to ignore the error, If we use a Non-Ubuntu based OS.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/psensor-users/NMLbf6wESHg

By default psensor will get installed here,
/usr/local/share/psensor/www 

This is the WWW Directory location where the psensor-server component mount the directory to the inbuilt web server.This directory contains html , css and js files.

From the Terminal,type

psensor-server
 
LOG:

[2014-06-17T10:06:47] [ERR] hddtemp: failed to open connection.
[(null)] [INFO] Web server started on port: 3131
[(null)] [INFO] WWW directory: /usr/local/share/psensor/www
[(null)] [INFO] URL: http://localhost:3131

From browser point to, http://localhost:3131 to get the page which contain instant data s.


More detail on monitoring System Temperature  can be found here.

http://xmodulo.com/2013/11/monitor-system-temperature-linux.html