Thanks all--if we can get this working there is a large community of HP ProLiant server users who will benefit. Upon tracing the "hplog" process behavior, it seems to read the data is by using message queues attached to the Proliant System Health Monitor (hpasmd) process which, in turn, may also rely on data from the HP Lights-Out Drivers and Agents (hprsm) daemon. There are two routes that might be taken here: 1. Reverse-engineer the hpasmd process and read values directly from the HP/Compaq hardware. or 2. Write a shim to work in concert with an existing hpasmd process and feed data back using existing drivers (i.e. /dev/cpqhealth/proc, /dev/cpqhealth/cevt, etc.) -Tom
