Net-SNMP and lm-sensors on Ubuntu 10.04

Notes

This is a Wiki tutorial for using Net-SNMP and lm-sensors on Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS.

Getting the sources

You can download the latest sources of Net-SNMP from here:

  Net-SNMP Download Page

You can download the latest sources of lm-sensors from here:

  lm-sensors Download Page

Configure lm-sensors

Ubuntu 10.04.1 includes lm-sensors 3.1.2 pre-installed. To verify the lm-sensors version, type the following:

> sensors -v
sensors version 3.1.2 with libsensors version 3.1.2

lm-sensors needs to be configured using sensors-detect before it can be used. sensors-detect is an interactive script for detecting hardware sensor chips. Run the following:

> sudo sensors-detect

Following sensors-detect, reboot your system, or use the following command to load the necessary kernel modules:

> sudo /etc/init.d/module-init-tools start