acpi needed to control fans on HP Proliant

[Paul Saab]

No, this stuff wont work on Proliants.  Proliants do not use ipmi and
they require a separate driver to allow fan control and other stuff.

Lanny Baron (lnb at FreeBSDsystems.COM) wrote:
> Hi,
> I think if you check out http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM/ipmi.html it will
> give you an idea of how to monitor what your Server hardware is doing.
> 
> In terms of fan speeds, it is controlled by the BMC.  
> 
> On our Servers, until we do a complete upgrade of the BIOS and BMC the
> fans are good for a jet on takeoff. Once we have done the upgrade, the
> Server fans slow down considerably.
> 
> Having said that, perhaps ask your HP rep to get you (if it even
> available..we don't sell hp servers) the BMC/FRUSDR/BIOS upgrade files.
> 
> Hope that helps you out.
> 
> Regards,
> Lanny 
> 
> On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 03:44, Paul Saab wrote:
> > Your HP rep is lying to you.  You have to have their health driver
> > (not ACPI) which is not available for FreeBSD.
> > 
> > akanwar at digitarchy.com (akanwar at digitarchy.com) wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >  
> > > I run FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE on about 70 i386 boxes. Now we are evaluating a
> > > HP Proliant DL360 G3 servers for BSD compatability.
> > > 
> > > All seems good except except the fact that the fans in the server run full
> > > steam all the time (and they are LOUD). My HP rep tells me that if I
> > > install Windows on this box, it will automatically control fan speed via
> > > acpi.
> > > 
> > > How do I do the same in FreeBSD 4.8 ? 
> > > 
> > > I do not see any "acpi0" messages in the dmesg.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for your time,
> > > 
> > > -ansh
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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