Special Features; System Health Monitoring - Supermicro X10DDW-i User Manual

X10DDW-i/iN Motherboard User's Manual
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Special Features

Recovery from AC Power Loss
The Basic I/O System (BIOS) provides a setting that determines how the system will
respond when AC power is lost and then restored to the system. You can choose for
the system to remain powered off (in which case you must press the power switch
to turn it back on), or for it to automatically return to the power-on state. See the
Advanced BIOS Setup section for this setting. The default setting is Last State.
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System Health Monitoring

This section describes the features of system health monitoring of the motherboard.
This motherboard has an onboard Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) chip
that provides system health monitoring. The BMC will scan the following onboard
voltages continuously: +1.2V, +3.3V, 3.3V Standby, +5V, +5V Standby, +12V, CPU
core, memory, chipset, HT, BMC, and battery voltages. 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.
Fan Status Monitor with Firmware Control
The system health monitoring support provided by the BMC controller can check
the RPM status of a cooling fan. The onboard CPU and chassis fans are controlled
by IPMI 2.0.
Environmental Temperature Control
A thermal control sensor monitors the CPU temperature in real time and will turn
on the thermal control fan whenever the CPU temperature exceeds a user-defined
threshold in IPMI settings. When the CPU temperature becomes too high, thermal
fan control will be automatically turned on to prevent the CPU from overheating.
Note: To avoid possible system overheating, please be sure to provide
adequate airflow to your system.
System Resource Alert
This feature is available when used with SuperDoctor 5. SuperDoctor 5 is used
to notify the 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.
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