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Environmental Temperature Control
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 and 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.
System Resource Alert
This feature is available when used with SuperDoctor 5 in the Windows OS or in the Linux
environment. 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.
1.5 ACPI Features
The Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) 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 regarding OS support,
please refer to the Supermicro website.
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