Anyone here have experience modifying the BMC firmware on PE2900-III?
Bond Masuda <[email protected]>
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I've decided not to get a C2100 and just upgrade a good 'old PE2900-III. As part of the effort, I'm swapping out the fans with quieter fans. I've done this before on PE2900-I and II servers with a lot of success. However, it seems like the BMC firmware for the PE2900-III is a little different and the same fans I had previously used in the gen-1 and gen-2 PE2900 are now running slower; which triggers the low RPM threshold. I previously read about how one can change the BMC firmware thresholds here: http://projects.nuschkys.net/2011/11/15/how-to-adjust-the-fan-thresholds-of-a-dell-poweredge/ and using this: https://github.com/arnuschky/dell-bmc-firmware The strange thing is that for the Gen-III PE2900, the list of sensors seem short. It appears to only mention 4 of 6 internal 92mm fans, and the last 2 are probably (guessing) the PSU fans. In previous gen-II, I think they listed all 6 internal 92mm fans and 2 PSU fans. This seems a bit odd, so I was wondering if anyone else here has used the tool above to modify the BMC firmware thresholds on a PE2900-III and might be able to shed some light on this? Does fan 5 and 6 re-use one of the thresholds set for fan 1-4? It seems like any of the fans 1-6 can trigger the low threshold, so I want to be sure I am setting the new threshold for all 6 fans, not just 4 of them, which would not solve the problem. Anyone done this before? Bond