Hi guys, I've lost the last 4 days trying to solve this problem alone reading a lots of posts, articles and webpages but, can't figure out.

I had dismissed my old Qnap server by taking the USB keys and all 4 HDD and transfered to a new setup on a used x11sca-f. All it's working, I'm happy for the increased perfomance of my NAS (only NAS). But I can't control my fans and they are spinning like creazy. This is my problem that brought me to understand that IPMI is non working.

 

FANs problem

Now all my fans are working at 100% and I don't like it and in the BIOS I don't see any section to control the temperature or the fans. Ok.

"fancontrol" is not working with a "no configuration file detected", "sensors" show only basic CPU temps so I launched "sensor-detect" and loaded nct6775 module and now I can see a lots of datas, but FANs are not detected (i get 0rpm). 

 

IPMI problem

So I tried to enable IPMI but it seems to don't work. I had enabled BMC, connected a VGA cable to my monitor and entered the BIOS. IPMI status is "not working". I had setted a static IP (tried same of mi unraid and also different) but nothing work. I had disabled BMC grapfic and tried to see if I see IPMI via IPMIView but nothing.

 

IPMI plugin

I've installed IPMI plugin inside Unraid, but can't see any sensor or can't do nothing with it. 

 

So now I'm lost, I don't know what to try. I-ve started from a fan problem to a IPMI not working.

Edited June 16, 20242 yr by DoroDuncan

If IPMI is not working in the BIOS the IPMI plugin won't work, try resetting the CMOS and/or re-flashing the BMC with the latest firmware.

I had updated the bios from version 1.0 to the last 2.4. IPMI is not working. I'd tried to set static ip into IPMI bios settings, leaved dhcp, connected lan1, lan2 and both. Nothing, IPMI still is not working 

I meant try updating the BMC (IPMI) firmware, not the BIOS.

I thought about it but, I don't know how to do it. There are no release note with the firmware, i had found only the method to update via ipmi. I'm searching but nothing for now

Had anyone found how to update the BMS IPMI firmware? In the zip downloaded from Supermicro there is only and efi file and the bin file. But no instruction on how to update it. 

Silly question, I assume you've got a network cable plugged in to the correct port?

Yeah, both ports are working for networking and I had tried to update the BMC with the cable pluged in in both port.

When I'm in UEFI shell and trie to use the efi file to flash I get an error "BMC did not in correct state, execute cold reset failed"

 

I'm using the GPU to see what I'm doing and the JPEG1 jumper is setted to 2-3

Edited November 15, 20241 yr by DoroDuncan

Not sure if it will work for the X11 board, but I have an X10DRi-T Supermicro motherboard and use this. (If you can get IPMI working that is)

 

First, I installed ipmitool-1.8.18-x86_64-1_SBo_nerdtools.txz from nerd tools (running v6.12.15 on unRAID currently)

--- Note: I know nerdtools is depreciated, so what I did was copy the installed txz from /flash/extra out, then uninstalled nerdtools, and then put the file back in place. Once the file was back in place, I ran the command:  upgradepkg --install-new /boot/extra/ipmitool-1.8.18-x86_64-1_SBo_nerdtools.txz to re-add it without rebooting.

 

Then I found a script online (long time ago) and placed it in a user script to trigger at start of the array:

 

#!/bin/bash
#set fans to full speed
ipmitool raw 0x30 0x45 0x01 0x01
sleep 10
#set 'system' fan zone to 30%
ipmitool raw 0x30 0x70 0x66 0x01 0x00 0x1E
sleep 10
#set 'peripheral' fan zone to 30%
ipmitool raw 0x30 0x70 0x66 0x01 0x01 0x1E

 

That sets my fan zones to 30%. If you want something different, you can change the first set 0x30 to something else.

 

PS: I found an updated ipmitool v1.8.19 which is intended for unRAID v7.0 but I haven't upgraded my system yet to try it out.

Edited January 30, 20251 yr by OrneryTaurus