Constantine A. Murenin
Abstract
In this talk, we will discuss the past and present history and the design
principles of the OpenBSD hardware sensors framework.
Sensors framework provides a unified interface for storing, registering and
accessing information about hardware monitoring sensors. Sensor types
include, but are not limited to, temperature, voltage, fan RPM, time offset
and logical drive status. The framework spans sensor_attach(9), sysctl(3),
sysctl(8), sensorsd(8), ntpd(8), snmpd(8) and more than 67 drivers, ranging
from I2C temperature sensors and Super I/O hardware monitors to IPMI, RAID
and SCSI enclosures. Several third-party tools are also available, for
example, a plug-in for Nagios and ports/sysutils/symon.
Originally based on some ideas from NetBSD, the framework has sustained many
improvements in OpenBSD, and was ported and committed to FreeBSD and
DragonFly BSD.
Speaker
Constantine A. Murenin is an MMath graduate student at the David R.
Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo (CA).
Prior to his graduate appointment, Constantine attended and subsequently
graduated from East Carolina University (US) and De Montfort University
(UK),
receiving two bachelor degrees in computer science, with honors and honours
respectively.
A FreeBSD Google Summer of Code 2007 Student, OpenBSD Committer and Mozilla
Contributor, Constantine's interests range from standards compliance and
usability at all levels, to quiet computing and hardware monitoring.
http://Constantine.SU/