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27.Dd June 22, 2011
28.Dt SYSMON 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm sysmon
32.Nd system monitoring and power management interface
33.Sh DESCRIPTION
34The machine-independent
35.Nm
36is a general purpose framework for system monitoring and power management.
37The main components of
38.Nm
39include:
40.Bl -bullet -offset indent
41.It
42An
43.Xr ioctl 2
44interface available via
45.Pa /dev/sysmon .
46The userland counterparts
47include utilities such as
48.Xr envstat 8
49and daemons such as
50.Xr powerd 8 .
51.It
52An interface for the purpose of delivering different
53system and power events to userspace;
54.Xr sysmon_pswitch 9 .
55.It
56A general purpose sensor framework,
57.Xr sysmon_envsys 9 .
58.It
59A general purpose task queue,
60.Xr sysmon_taskq 9 .
61.It
62An interface for watchdog timers.
63.El
64.Sh FILES
65.Bd -literal
66/dev/sysmon
67.Ed
68.Sh SEE ALSO
69.Xr envsys 4 ,
70.Xr swsensor 4 ,
71.Xr envstat 8 ,
72.Xr powerd 8 ,
73.Xr wdogctl 8 ,
74.Xr pmf 9
75.Sh AUTHORS
76.An Jason R. Thorpe Aq Mt thorpej@NetBSD.org
77