Users Guide
Fans
Click the Fans object to manage your system fans. Server Administrator monitors the status of each system fan by measuring fan RPMs.
Fan probes report RPMs to the Server Administrator Instrumentation Service.
When you select Fans from the device tree, details appear in the data area in the right-side pane of the Server Administrator home page.
The Fans object action window can have the following tabs, depending on the user's group privileges: Properties and Alert Management.
Properties
Subtab: Fan Probes
Under the Properties tab, you can:
• View the current readings for your system's fan probes and congure minimum and maximum values for fan probe warning threshold.
NOTE: Some fan probe elds dier according to the type of rmware your system has, such as BMC or ESM. Some threshold
values are not editable on BMC-based systems.
• Select fan control options.
Alert Management
Subtabs: Alert Actions | SNMP Traps
Under the Alert Management tab, you can:
• View current alert actions settings and set the alert actions that you want to be performed in the event that a fan returns a warning or
failure value.
• Set the alert threshold levels for fans.
Firmware
Click the Firmware object to manage your system rmware. Firmware consists of programs or data that have been written to ROM.
Firmware can boot and operate a device. Each controller contains rmware that helps provide the controller's functionality. The Firmware
object action window can have the following tab, depending on the user's group privileges: Properties.
Properties
Subtab: Information
Under the Properties tab, you can view the system's rmware information.
Hardware performance
Click the Hardware Performance object to view the status and cause for the system’s performance degradation. The Hardware
Performance object action window can have the following tab, depending on the user's group privileges: Properties.
Properties
Subtab: Information
Under the Properties tab, you can view the details of system’s performance degradation.
The following table lists the possible values for status and cause of a probe:
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Server Administrator services