The program Hardware Monitor Remote is an add-on to the
Hardware Monitor program for the Mac OS X operating system. Hardware Monitor Remote allows you to use a hardware monitoring service on a remote Macintosh system. Other computers can contact this system via network (local area network, wireless network or the Internet) to receive readings from all available hardware sensors.
Hardware Monitor allows you to monitor the computer it is running on in the standard configuration. Hardware Monitor Remote extends its capabilities to monitor additional computers in the network as well. You can connect to an unlimited number of computer simultaneously and monitor them all from a single workstation. (In practice, the actual number may be limited by the speed of your network.) Of course you can also use several monitoring stations to receive data from an arbitrary number of other computers.
New in this version:
Support for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther has been removed. The required minimum OS version is now Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
Because the application does not need to support Mac OS X 10.3 any longer, controlling the service could be simplified. Manually controlling whether the system should auto-launch the monitor service at startup is no longer necessary. The system will automatically keep the current run state the service had during last shutdown.
Alphanumeric LC displays connected via an IO-Warrior chip will no longer be disconnected when the background service was started during a login session and the user logged out.
The application no longer displays dialogs to save privileged preference settings when the control window is being closed.
Added a feature to monitor the size of swap space memory which is actually in use.
On PowerPC hardware, support for S.M.A.R.T. hard drive sensors accessed via SATA interfaces has been enhanced. The application will now accept the temperature sensors of unknown SATA drive models. (This has always been the standard on Intel-based computers.)
The support for hard drive sensors controlled via proprietary drivers of Sonnet and FirmTek has been enhanced.
When stopping the monitoring service, shutdown of attached alphanumeric LCD boxes has been enhanced.
Corrected a problem where the temperature values displayed for the cores of the Intel P7350 processor have been shifted by 15 degrees Celsius.
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release notes.
Demo Limitations:
The program will only transfer readouts of temperature sensors, not other values like voltage, current, fan speed, etc.
A demonstration window appears when launching the application.
The remote service terminates itself after running for 3 minutes.
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