Re: [Freeipmi-users] Dell OEM commands for setting fan thresholds?

[Albert Chu]

Hi,

The normal mechanism for configuring the fan thresholds is via the
ipmi-sensors-config tool (see manpage for more details on how to
config).  It is possible the fields are read-only on your motherboard,
so the tool may not work for you.

If there is an OEM specific way to configure them, it might be hidden to
end users and is only used by Dell during manufacturing.  The Dell OEM
commands in ipmi-oem came from some docs I got from Dell.  The docs
don't list a fan threshold modification, so I don't think I can help you
on that front.

Hope some of this information helps.

Al

On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 01:14 -0700, Arnuschky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to change the fan failure threshold of my Dell server.
> Unfortunately, they are read-only. The manual says that these values
> are not user-changeable, but are configured by your OEM. 
> 
> I think there might be IPMI commands for doing this - I doubt that they
> reflash the BMC bios when they start using different fan model. Is
> there anything like this? Where could I find out? Where did the Dell
> OEM commands specification come from?
> 
> Cheers,
> Arnuschky
> 
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