System Health Monitoring; Onboard Voltage Monitors; Fan Status Monitor With Firmware Control; Environmental Temperature Control - Supermicro X11SDD-8C-F User Manual

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1.4 System Health Monitoring

This section describes the health monitoring features of the X11SDD-8C/18C-F 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 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 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 provide adequate airflow to your

system.

This feature is available when used with SuperDoctor 5® in the Windows OS or in the Linux

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

you can configure SuperDoctor to provide you with warnings when the system temperature,

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

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