

Sudo sensors-detect #Carefully follow the prompts to configure the package It is recommended to run the following command after installation

Read sensory data such as – temperature of cpu cores and ram modules Installing and usage of relevant packages Sadly there isn't a lot of options for Linux so finally, I ended up running Prime 95 and a few other monitoring tools to perform the task. i have it plugged in to the usb port on the server and its just a matter of changing the boot priority in bios to get it up and running) I used a Cent OS 6.5 installed on to an old 8GB USB thumb drive (not live linux. I needed an effective way to test if decreasing the fan speeds have any negative effects on the system under heavy load.

I cannot get a lot of info from the exsi health monitor and i cannot run any pakages from the esxi shell. In this case i wanted to stress test my Dell PE 2950 after modding it to reduce the fan noise - link troubleshooting hardware/overheating issues.
