Hello,

I have exactly the same issue with a Nvidia NVS 310 PNY.

Can you explan what is a IPMI command and how to execute it ?

Regards,

I have this issue (I have added a single port Broadcom NIC to a brand new T130). Since adding the NIC  the fan speed does not settle down after boot.

My problem is that I am using Linux (OpenSuse Leap42.1) - the solution above assumes a Microsoft OS.

Any ideas on how to fix this problem using an OS other than M$ ?

Thanks.

Dear Robert, thanks for taking the time to reply.

There is a gap in my knowledge. When you say the commands are the same in Linux are you suggesting that I can download the Dell OpenManage BMC utility to my running Linux OS ("install" somehow) and then carry out the modifications suggested ? Or is this download done somehow in iDRAC (this level of intelligence in the BIOS/Boot Phase is rather new to me).

I see within the iDRAC I can access a section called "thermal" but this looks as though it lets me _increase_ the fan speed rather than forcing "normal" behaviour of adapting the fan speed to real thermal feedback as opposed to simply increasing the baseline speed if an "unknown" card is installed. My card is a Broadcom supplied by Dell - a simple PCIe x1 card (5722) - I cannot believe it draws much power (try as I have I cannot find the power rating)

As far as I can determine the BIOS/iDRAC is fully up to date.

Hi Robert,

OK. I have now partially filled the gap in my knowledge and have the ipmitool installed on my linux based system (via the software installer in YaST).

After some experimenting I now am able to execute the tool and recover some printable reports using the commands "sdr", "sensor" and "fru". I've tried these as they seem to be simple read only type commands that will not alter anything.

BTW the command line on OpensSUSE Leap 42.1 that appears to work is as follows:

ipmitool -I open -U root -P calvin -H

where has so far been one of  sdr sensor fru

Now, I'm a little nervous about sending "raw" commands to the firmware without understanding what they mean ...... try as I may I cannot track down the precise meaning of the data byte pattern you give in your earlier reply. The first byte (0x30) looks to be "vendor specific netfn" followed by a command "0x30" and then (I'm guessing) the next byte is a length value (0x01) followed by 0x00 and(0x02) followed by 0xff and 0x46.

Can you give me any further info on what these byte strings are actually doing please and where they are documented ?

Thanks,

Alan

Can these raw commands be sent from PC? I tried send them from windows 10 machine and get error: Unable to establish IPMI v2

Hi,

Ensure you set the Username and password after -U and -P 

Do you have the command to reset back to default please? 

Don't forget to enable IPMI Management over LAN inside the DRAC web UI. It appears to be disabled by default.

I have used these commands (from Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop edition) on the actual device as follows:

sudo ipmitool -I open raw 0x30 0x30 0x01 0x00

sudo ipmitool -I open raw 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x46

While the fan speed lowers, it is still certainly quite loud. Is there anything I can do to reduce the fan speed? I'm fairly certain that at no load the fans should be running very slowly.

I get an error of "invalid parameter given or out of range for -L"

Suggestions?

And also, can this command be run without the server actually plugged into an Ethernet connection? I'm still setting it up and don't have access to a cable yet.