mrtg-sensors uses the lm-sensors library to query various system sensors for information such as
temperature, fan speed, etc. The output is written in a form useful as input for the MRTG utility.
Up to two pairs of chips and labels may be specified. The first is used for the incoming data value in
MRTG, while the second is used for the outgoing data value. Of course, they need not correspond to
incoming or outgoing data, that is merely what MRTG expects.
"chip" is the name of the chip to query, and "label" is the label of the piece of information that should
be queried from the given chip. sensors(1) can be used to look up all available chips and labels on your
system.
Wildcards may be used in chip names, but only the first matching chip will be queried.
If you use the special name "dummy" as a chip name, nothing will be queried, and a value of zero will be
sent to MRTG.
-mmultiplier
Sets the multiplier to be used in the output. For example, if the temperature is 59.2 and a
multiplier of 100, the output would be 592. The option order is important, the first -m will modify
the first value and the second -m, the second. Note that you may find it more useful to use
sensors.conf(5) to set global multipliers for sensors. If it is defined once, affect both output
values. The default multiplier is 1.