Fan Status Monitor With Firmware Control; Environmental Temperature Control; System Resource Alert; Acpi Features - Supermicro X11SRi-IF User Manual

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Super X11SRi-IF User's Manual

Fan Status Monitor with Firmware Control

The system health monitor embedded in the BMC chip can check the RPM status of the

cooling fans. The CPU and chassis fans are controlled via lPMI.

System Health sensors monitor temperatures and voltage settings of onboard processors

and the system in real time via the IPMI interface. Whenever the temperature of the CPU or

the system exceeds a user-defined threshold, system/CPU cooling fans will be turned on to

prevent the CPU or the system from overheating.

Note: To avoid possible system overheating, please be sure to provide adequate airflow

to your system.

This feature is available when used with SuperDoctor

environment. SuperDoctor

you can configure SuperDoctor

CPU temperatures, voltages and fan speeds go beyond a predefined range.

ACPI stands for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. The ACPI specification defines

a flexible and abstract hardware interface that provides a standard way to integrate power

management features throughout a computer system, including its hardware, operating

system and application software. This enables the system to automatically turn on and off

peripherals such as CD-ROMs, network cards, hard disk drives and printers.

In addition to enabling operating system-directed power management, ACPI also provides a

generic system event mechanism for Plug and Play, and an operating system-independent

interface for configuration control. ACPI leverages the Plug and Play BIOS data structures,

while providing a processor architecture-independent implementation that is compatible with

Windows operating systems.

is used to notify the user of certain system events. For example,

to provide you with warnings when the system temperature,

5 in the Windows OS or in the Linux

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