On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 02:23:44PM -0400, Jan Wagner wrote: > Hi there, > > we got a bugreport[1] against our nagios-plugins package. Unfortunately we are > unsure about what "FAULT" means. > In case this is a hardware problem of a sensor in form of it got damaged, we > would report "CRITICAL", as a problem occured. > If this means there is a problem detecting the sensor or something software > like problem, we would report "UNKNOWN" as this not means a hardware problem > happened. > It is supposed to indicate a HW problem. Here is the text describing the sysfs attribute: "Each input channel may have an associated fault file. This can be used to notify open diodes, unconnected fans etc. where the hardware supports it. When this boolean has value 1, the measurement for that channel should not be trusted." Note that "critical" in the hwmon ABI means that a critical limit has been reached. You would get a "critical" alarm in this case. You might have a terminology problem if you use "critical" for a hardware failure. An undetected sensor should not show up in the first place. Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
