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Since you cannot obtain the GPU temperatures using aticonfig unless you are executing from an X11 session, I use the following bash script ("temps.sh") which I start in an X11 terminal window:

I believe that is not true. It works for me when I log in to my machine via SSH:



(monitor-temp.sh is just a shortcut for "aticonfig --adapter=0 --od-gettemperature")
hero member
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Well an X display usually starts without any interaction, but to use it you'll have to enable autologin.

Then in the SSH session you want to run the command in you have to specify the display you want to talk to by setting the DISPLAY variable.

There are two ways to do so:
Code:
$ DISPLAY=:0 yourcommand
$ export DISPLAY=:0
The first will apply it only to yourcommand, while the second will save it into the shells environment variables, so it applies to all following commands.
Also you have to know which display you want to talk to:
  • DISPLAY=:x.y will use the device y controlled by driver x
  • DISPLAY=:0 is a shortcut used by ATI to indicate all devices under the fglrx driver

HTH,
cdecker
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Thanks! Any advice on how to run a script from an X11 terminal window? I seem to be stuck with trying to get poclbm to autostart, or at least starting it remotely. If I just switch on the computer (so that it boots to the login screen) and then ssh into it, there does not seem to be a running x server (my guess). In any case poclbm doesn't detect the graphics cards. As soon as I log in on the mining PC directly, it suddenly also works in the shell.

I am in over my head with this X11 stuff, no idea how it works... I've tried to execute things like startx in the ssh shell, but then it says x server is already running. On the other hand aticonfig says x server is not running. Confusing...
hero member
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I do have a fork of the DiabloMiner to add hashrate via a JMX interface, I'm using it myself with munin. Feel free to take a look https://github.com/cdecker/DiabloMiner/tree/JMX

I will add more statistics Cheesy

Edit: this is a sample from one of my machines
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I run this bash script ("status.sh") every 15 minutes via cron to obtain and forward the status of my miners:

Code:
date > status.out
cat /home/user/temps.out >> status.out
ps -e | grep bitc >> status.out
ps -e | grep pocl >> status.out
ps -e | grep minerd >> status.out
cat /home/user/.bitcoin/debug.log | grep generated >> status.out
/home/user/bitcoind getinfo | grep -iE "(balance|connections)" | sed 's/[",]//g' >> status.out
scp status.out [email protected]:/home/user/status101.out

This provides a date stamp, shows me that all of the relevant processes are running, whether or not I have generated a block, if I have received payment for confirmed blocks and how many connections I have.  Since you cannot obtain the GPU temperatures using aticonfig unless you are executing from an X11 session, I use the following bash script ("temps.sh") which I start in an X11 terminal window:

Code:
while true
do
  /usr/bin/aticonfig --odgt --adapter=all | grep Temp > temps.out
  sleep 900
done

This link has instructions on how to set up ssh (scp) using shared keys:
http://hocuspokus.net/2008/01/ssh-shared-key-setup-ssh-logins-without-passwords/

Each miner copies its status.out file to a separate status file on the "wwwhost.com" machine (see scp command above).  Then the wwwhost.com machine has a cron job which runs five minutes later and parses all the statusXXX.out files into a web page.  There are probably more elegant ways to accomplish this, but I have mine set up this way because the miners are behind a firewall, and I use an external machine to serve a web-accessible status page.
newbie
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I think RDDTools is the standard for this kind of thing? I plan to toy around with it today, creating charts of fan speed, GPU temperature and hash rates.

I guess in the worst case I'll mod poclbm to "log" to rdd, but I would prefer it if I could use a "clean" poclbm from github. Otherwise I have to repeat the modifications every time there is a new version of poclbm.
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Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future.
So I got poclbm running on Ubuntu, and might already have generated the first block (there was an "accepted" message, but there does not seem to be anything in my account yet).

Now I wonder how to best monitor that mining PC, which will hopefully end up in some cellar soon. So I need remote supervision.

Are there already solutions for getting nice charts of GPU temperature and hash rates? What happens if a fan fails - will the system just stop, or will it start burning?

Since the PC runs bitcoind, what is a convenient way to query it's status. Are there nice clients for bitcoind already? I only made some basic queries with curl now, to check the account balance.

Has anyone looked into it yet? Sounds like something very useful (for me anyway).
newbie
Activity: 47
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So I got poclbm running on Ubuntu, and might already have generated the first block (there was an "accepted" message, but there does not seem to be anything in my account yet).

Now I wonder how to best monitor that mining PC, which will hopefully end up in some cellar soon. So I need remote supervision.

Are there already solutions for getting nice charts of GPU temperature and hash rates? What happens if a fan fails - will the system just stop, or will it start burning?

Since the PC runs bitcoind, what is a convenient way to query it's status. Are there nice clients for bitcoind already? I only made some basic queries with curl now, to check the account balance.
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