Onboard Voltage Monitors; Fan Status Monitor With Firmware Control; Environmental Temperature Control; System Resource Alert - Supermicro X11DPX-T User Manual

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Onboard Voltage Monitors

The onboard voltage monitor will continuously scan crucial voltage levels. Once a voltage

becomes unstable, it will give a warning or send an error message to the IPMI WebGUI and

IPMIView. Real time readings of these voltage levels are all displayed in IPMI.

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 in the BMC monitor the 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 the manufacturer-defined threshold, system/CPU cooling

fans will increase fan spin to provide better air flow to prevent the CPU or the system from

overheating.

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

flow to your system.

This feature is available when used with SuperDoctor

user of certain system events. For example, you can configure SuperDoctor 5 to provide you

with warnings when the system temperature, 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 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

appropriate Windows operating systems. For detailed information on OS support, please refer

to our website at www.supermicro.com.

5. SuperDoctor 5 is used to notify the

Chapter 1: Introduction

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