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At the moment my cpu is still on Fan1 but later I want to switch it back to FanA to make use of Fan1234 for my 4 case (HDD) fans. One question: What exactly is the bottleneck in execution count, Polling temperatures of CPU? Polling temperatures of HDD? Or Setting Fan speeds?

Hey @dmacias first of al thank you very much for your gorgeous work an the already great plugin, I'd love to have the opportunity to offer more help on the development, where are you from? Second: My UnRaid box runs a plexserver and is built for heavy transcoding requirements when I'm starting a transcoded 4K stream the cpu load accelerates up to about 90% in less then 2 seconds in about 10 seconds the temperature goes up to 80°C and about 30 seconds later up to about 90°C, all that at a base fan speed of 1000RPM with my current stock cooler (already looking for a better cooler). About 20 to 30 seconds at 80 tu 90°C later the fancontroll kicks in and puts the fan to 100% of insanely loud 3100RPM and cools down the cpu to 60°C for a minute then the fan controll lowers fan speed to about 1800RPM and temps go up again to about 80°C... and so on. This game of going up and down in temperature is a known issue of non regulated but controlled systems on cycle times which are not short enough (studying mechanical engineering) On a 10 second cycle time it is working like a charm. As bring down execution counts is verrrry appreciated I totally agree that a cycle time of 10sec is significantly to short for HDDs, but for CPU cooling it is also mandatory. FYI https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?resources/fan-scripts-for-supermicro-boards-using-pid-logic.24/ this is a link to a FreeNAS forum where a similar fan controll mechanism was developed earlier. This guy suggests the following for cycle times. Im using a Powerful Intel Xeon E3-1245v6 CPU with a TDP of 78W and I can confirm fast temperature spikes.

I already had that scenario. Acidentally delieted /boot. The procedure I had to take was prepareing a whole new flash drive with a fresh install of UnRaid, boot, install unassigned devices... just to copy of the data of the backup And then recreate the flash drive with the recovered data. First thing I did after that procedure was to schedule a weekly incremental versioned offside backup to a friends unraid box via duplicati and sftp. That won't happen again.

Would it be possible to implement a functonality to set Different Intervalls for each Zone? For example 1sec for CPU FanA and 5min for HDD Fan1234?

Just tested the beta, it works like a charm on my X11SSi-LN4F. Great work! Only one point which I didn't got to run. My fans didn't turn of, probably because I'm not able to don't set a minimum, a value between 1 an 64 is mandatory. If I'm setting a minimum lower than 19 at FAN1234, which is equivalent to 1000RPM on my CPU cooler connected to FAN1, my fan rotates at 1000RPM nonetheless probably forced by the mainboard. So turning fans of isn't possible on my board. Edit: Enabling Network Connection Disables the fancontroll, an doesn't stets the MB back to auto!!! I still have some feature ideas. It would be great to have the possibility to set a Fan speed maximum (1-64) because most stock coolers don't really have a better cooling performance just by maxing out the rpm of a loud fan. It would also be great to be able to set shorter Temperature Polling Time cycle because a CPU variates match faster in temperature than once a minute something like 5 to 15 seconds would be nice.

I have examns at University this week. But will definetly test at the weekend.

Haven't tested te Beta just jet, but totally agree. Edit: Temp sensor for Fan A is located at the lower left Edge of the Mainboard and messures ambient air temp wehre pci-e cards are located.

I have a x11ssi-ln4f and it didn't worked. I lowered the Fan 1234 and Fan A thresholds in the ipmi frontend. Whitch exact thresholds did you lowered? And whitch method did you have used?

Lowering thresholds doesn't work anymore for x11 boards.

I had the Same issue with my Fans. They are to Slow on low PWM value. They will keep doing this. But maybe there will be a workaround soon. Have a Look at page 23

OK, I already thought to do so. Do I got it right that this will start a reinstall of the VM?

Hey, I accidentally deleted my whole cache drive (/appdata /system /domains is gone) and need to restore my VMs. I backed up VM XMLs using this Plugin. Is there any explanation how to restore my VMs using the backed up XMLs?

I have the same issue just tried uploading a 10GB file. Error message: and:

Great if you want to Test it on an x11 feel frei to ask for a TeamViewer Session.

Ipmi-raw commands are working as expected on my x11ssi-ln4f.

@dmacias How are the progresses of the implementation of fancontroll support for SM X11 boards?

Great Info. I'm still on the Same issue. Will Test your Solution later. Edit: Great, it works. Never thought about Workgroups.

No Problem

Try the commands, if it doesn't work, your board doesn't support fan speed control via IPMI and you have to chose a Mode in your Bios. this command will set your main fan zone to full speed. ipmi-raw 00 30 70 66 01 00 64

to set a static fan speed log in to your unRaid box vie ssh: Remember these speeds are static and not affected by any temperatures.

ok that board seems to have IPMI. Please take a look at your IPMI WebGUI, do you have the Fan Mode option at the Configuration tab?

Having the possibility to set fanspeeds in bios usually means that fanspeed isn't controlled by BMC and therefor not controllable via IPMI, please tell me which Mainbord you are using!

On my x11 Board I cannot set thresholds. Wht I can set using ipmi or ipmi raw commands is: static fan speeds per Zone SM Auto fanspeed modes

Fancontroll isn't avalable for Supermicro boards just jet.

That sounds great. Can't wait for using that on my x11 board to get rid of my static speed hardware controller. What I noticed is that having a polling time of some minutes is nice to control the temperature of HDDs but if the main CPU Fan is controlled by that, less than a few seconds will be a little so log to cool down a temperature spike based one spontaneous heavy processing of higher TDP CPUs?! Correct me if I'm wrong with that.