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Re: How To Control Fan Speed on Older Compaq Proliant ML350




On 24/01/16 16:20, gc@maillr.com wrote:

> Hello.

Hello, GC.

> I have an older Compaq Proliant ML350 (Dual Intel Pentium® III 1.0 GHz
> Model) running Debian Wheezy that I have been using for many MANY MEEE
> NEEEE years as a web server. It works great, everything is fine, I will
> continue to run it until the end of time. lol
> 
> That said, I have tried off and on thru the years to control the fan
> speed. It runs constantly at full speed. It's very loud. I have tried
> using fancontrol and could never figure out how to get it to work on
> this system; and while on other systems fancontrol works perfectly fine.
> 
> What's interesting is that the fan is 100% controlled in a Microsoft
> Windows environment. I don't like Windows and I would rather go deaf
> listening to the fan running on Debian than to use the machine with
> Windows installed.
> 
> But, if anyone can help me it sure would be nice to get a muffler
> installed on this server. If anyone has advice on how to gain control of
> the fan I'll be forever appreciative.
> 
> Here's the link to the specs-sheet on the system I have. It's completely
> stock with no modifications:
> http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04286423.pdf

Have you tested with hpasmcli? [1]

I remember some years ago I used the HP utilities (hp-health) in a
Proliant DL380 series servers. HP had deb and rpm packages for this.

Good luck!

Best regards,
Daniel

[1]
https://jreypo.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/hp-proliant-servers-management-with-hpasmcli/

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