SYSMON(4)

NAME
sysmon - system monitoring and power management interface

DESCRIPTION
The machine-independent sysmon is a general purpose framework for system monitoring and power management. The main components of sysmon include:

•   An ioctl(2) interface available via /dev/sysmon. The userland counterparts include utilities such as envstat(8) and daemons such as powerd(8).

•   An interface for the purpose of delivering different system and power events to userspace; sysmon_pswitch(9).

•   A general purpose sensor framework, sysmon_envsys(9).

•   A general purpose task queue, sysmon_taskq(9).

•   An interface for watchdog timers.

FILES

    /dev/sysmon

SEE ALSO
envsys(4), swsensor(4), envstat(8), powerd(8), wdogctl(8), pmf(9)

AUTHORS
Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@NetBSD.org>