HP DL360 Fan Control

2009-09-26 Thread Mikel Lindsaar
I am looking at working out how to control the fans in a HP DL360. Right now, the fans start low, but if the room gets warm, they go to high (Boeing 747) volume, and the only way to put them back down to low, is a reboot, PITA. It looks like the HP website mentions OS specific "system health driv

Re: HP DL360 Fan Control

2009-09-26 Thread Mauro Rezzonico
Mikel Lindsaar wrote: I am looking at working out how to control the fans in a HP DL360. You could start here: http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle/#ilo You could try to fiddle with the Web-based iLO (configure the 3rd ethernet port in the setup) and connect with a web browser... BTW, HP (prolia

Re: HP DL360 Fan Control

2009-09-26 Thread Mikel Lindsaar
> You could start here: http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle/#ilo > You could try to fiddle with the Web-based iLO (configure the 3rd ethernet > port in the setup) and connect with a web browser... I'll check that out, but from memory, couldn't find that setting last time I looked. > BTW, HP (prolia

Re: HP DL360 Fan Control

2009-09-27 Thread RedShift
Mikel Lindsaar wrote: I am looking at working out how to control the fans in a HP DL360. Right now, the fans start low, but if the room gets warm, they go to high (Boeing 747) volume, and the only way to put them back down to low, is a reboot, PITA. It looks like the HP website mentions OS spec

Re: HP DL360 Fan Control

2009-09-27 Thread Nick Holland
RedShift wrote: > Mikel Lindsaar wrote: >> I am looking at working out how to control the fans in a HP DL360. >> >> Right now, the fans start low, but if the room gets warm, they go to >> high (Boeing 747) volume, and the only way to put them back down to >> low, is a reboot, PITA. >> >> It looks

Re: HP DL360 Fan Control

2009-10-01 Thread Steve Shockley
On 9/26/2009 6:12 AM, Mikel Lindsaar wrote: I am looking at working out how to control the fans in a HP DL360. Which gen? You might be able to play with the Linux utils in compat mode, or maybe run the Linux stuff (on Linux) in a debugger to see what they do.

Re: HP DL360 Fan Control

2009-10-01 Thread Mauro Rezzonico
Mikel Lindsaar wrote: > HP DL360 G3 I have an HP DL360 G4 and it doesn't do that: it starts "full throttle", but after 15-20 seconds it settles to just "very noisy" and stays like that... I did not had the chance to put the machine under heavy load (yet), but I suspect that is NOT the room get

Re: HP DL360 Fan Control

2009-10-01 Thread Derek Buttineau
I have seen the issue, we have 1 DL360 G3 server in particular where the fan stays at full throttle at all times. We've even gone so far as replacing the fan pack to try and resolve it, but the problem seems to be something more internal. We suspect the mother board. Other than that G3 t