System Health Monitoring; Onboard Voltage Monitors; Fan Status Monitor With Firmware Control; Environmental Temperature Control - Supermicro C7C232-CB-ML User Manual

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C7C232-CB-ML User's Manual

1.4 System Health Monitoring

This section describes the health monitoring features of the C7C232-CB-ML motherboard. The

motherboard has an onboard Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) chip that supports

system health monitoring. Once a voltage becomes unstable, a warning is given or an error

message is sent to the screen. The user can adjust the voltage thresholds to define the

sensitivity of the voltage monitor.

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 screen. Users can

adjust the voltage thresholds to define the sensitivity of the voltage monitor. Real time readings

of these voltage levels are all displayed in BIOS.

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 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 air-

flow to your system.

This feature is available when used with SuperDoctor 5

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.

. SuperDoctor 5 is used to notify the

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