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.Dd June 22, 2011
.Dt SYSMON 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm sysmon
.Nd system monitoring and power management interface
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The machine-independent
.Nm
is a general purpose framework for system monitoring and power management.
The main components of
.Nm
include:
.Bl -bullet -offset indent
.It
An
.Xr ioctl 2
interface available via
.Pa /dev/sysmon .
The userland counterparts
include utilities such as
.Xr envstat 8
and daemons such as
.Xr powerd 8 .
.It
An interface for the purpose of delivering different
system and power events to userspace;
.Xr sysmon_pswitch 9 .
.It
A general purpose sensor framework,
.Xr sysmon_envsys 9 .
.It
A general purpose task queue,
.Xr sysmon_taskq 9 .
.It
An interface for watchdog timers.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bd -literal
/dev/sysmon
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr envsys 4 ,
.Xr swsensor 4 ,
.Xr envstat 8 ,
.Xr powerd 8 ,
.Xr wdogctl 8 ,
.Xr pmf 9
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Jason R. Thorpe Aq Mt thorpej@NetBSD.org