> can I ask for a little help please? Sure you can. > I am trying to configure lm_sensors for a dual processor > Supermicro motherboard. > > I'm using the Nagios plugin check_sensors, > which very simply does a grep on the output of sensors, > and returns an alarm sate if the string ALARM is present. > On this motherboard, the chassis intrusion alarm is often set, > and I'd rather not alarm on this. > > Is there a way of switching off this alarm in sensors.conf please? In the w83627hf-* section, add the line "ignore alarms", and that should be OK. I also suspect that you can reboot, enter the BIOS setup screen, say you want to ignore the intrusion alarm, and be done that way. -- Jean Delvare http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/