"check_lm_sensors" - Nagios plugin to monitor hardware sensors and disk temperatures

perl v5.40.1 2025-08-14 CHECK_LM_SENSORS(7)

Matteo Corti <matteo@corti.li>

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check_updates depends on • Carp • English • Getopt::Long • Monitoring::Plugin • Monitoring::Plugin::Threshold • version

check_lm_sensors is a Nagios plugin to monitor the values of on board sensors and hard disk temperatures on Linux systems

You can specify multiple --verbose options to increase the program verbosity.

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0 if OK, 1 in case of a warning, 2 in case of a critical status and 3 in case of an unknown problem

None reported.

Copyright (c) 2007, ETH Zurich. Copyright (c) 2007-2105, Matteo Corti This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of GNU general public license (gpl) version 3. See the LICENSE file for details.

"check_lm_sensors" - Nagios plugin to monitor hardware sensors and disk temperatures

Nagios documentation

check_lm_sensors [--help] [--verbose] [--version] [OPTIONS] Options -?, --help help -l, --low specifies a check for a sensor value which is too low. -h, --high specifies a check for a sensor value which is too high. -r, --range specifies a check for a sensor value which should stay in a given range. --rename renames a sensor in the performance output (useful if you want to have common names for similar sensors across different machines) --sanitize sanitize sensor names (e.g., removing spaces) --nosensors disable checks on check lm_sensors --nodrives disable checks on drive temperatures -d, --drives enable checks on drive temperature --hddtemp_bin manually specifies the location of the hddtemp binary --sensors_bin manually specified the location of the sensors binary -v, --verbose verbose output --version prints $prog_name's version and exits

Version 3.1.1