RickInHouston Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 This is a very basic question. Sorry for that. I upgraded my Norco setup to 6.0. Since then my parity checks cause my drives to run hot. Maybe it's because I was not getting notifications of this with version 5. I'll check all my fans and look at my bios to see if I can set some new setting to increase overall fan speed. I think my hardware is in my signature. When I need to look into my bios I must bring home a monitor, keyboard and mouse from work to connect to my box. Is there an easier way to do this? Or since I'm booting my box, the only way to view bios is from a monitor directly connected to it? Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 I'll check all my fans and look at my bios to see if I can set some new setting to increase overall fan speed. I think my hardware is in my signature. When I need to look into my bios I must bring home a monitor, keyboard and mouse from work to connect to my box. Is there an easier way to do this? Or since I'm booting my box, the only way to view bios is from a monitor directly connected to it? I thought that MB had IPMI support so that you could do this over the network? Quote Link to comment
Chris Pollard Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 What fans do you have in the 120mm Fan Wall? What temperatures are you seeing? There are some settings you can change for the fans in the BIOS which you can do via IPMI. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 You can also make settings in the GUI for the drive temps that will trigger the notification. The default settings are very conservative. Quote Link to comment
RickInHouston Posted March 1, 2016 Author Share Posted March 1, 2016 I'm getting notifications at 38 degrees and into the 40's (which is too hot, in my opinion). It is upstairs, in Texas and hot air does rise. I will check into my bios settings. Does anyone have a quick ipmi guide? or fast step by step that I could follow? I'll download the SuperMicro manual and check the wiki for unraid and see what I can find but a quick step by step of what it intails just to get me started would be much appreciated... Rick (this is a great community) Quote Link to comment
RickInHouston Posted March 1, 2016 Author Share Posted March 1, 2016 I should probably update bios and drivers before I get started with this. I am not home to see what version I am on. What operating system do I download for? Microsoft, redhat or SuSE? I'm starting to feel a bit underwater, now. But I'll be fine... Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Default for hot is 45C, which I find reasonable, default for critical is 55C, anything <45C if fine. Quote Link to comment
RickInHouston Posted March 1, 2016 Author Share Posted March 1, 2016 Last question, for now, From my main Windows computer that is connected via ethernet. I log into my unraid with IPMIView and the NIC used on my unraid SuperMicro stays the same or do I plug the dedicated IPMI Nic into my Windows machine and control the box this way? Thank you, in advance, Rick Quote Link to comment
Chris Pollard Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Just plug the dedicated IPMI port into a spare port on your switch or router. Quote Link to comment
RickInHouston Posted March 1, 2016 Author Share Posted March 1, 2016 Got it. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
TUMS Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 I find that supermicro ipmi view is kind of subpar software. It's fine for initial setup i.e. setting static ip and password, but once that's done you might want to just access ipmi with your web browser. Quote Link to comment
RickInHouston Posted March 1, 2016 Author Share Posted March 1, 2016 what would be the best to adjust fan speed and settings? How do you change bios settings this way? Quote Link to comment
TUMS Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 what would be the best to adjust fan speed and settings? How do you change bios settings this way? Fan speed can be adjusted in ipmi. Your motherboard bios is separate from ipmi. You have to reset your server in order to get into mb bios settings. Quote Link to comment
RickInHouston Posted March 26, 2016 Author Share Posted March 26, 2016 Solved - When you access unraid from a webpage, and you have both NICs connected, how do you differentiate which one you want to view? Do you have to plug and unplug each each time? I need to change settings on my fans. Solved. It has a its own IP address. Quote Link to comment
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