In Dell PowerEdge R310's and proably other poweredge servers there's a
setting in the bios for power saving that I've set to OS Control.
On Monday a pdu that powers a number of our R310's and some other kit
burnt out at the big plug that plugs into the pdu. The Pdu was replaced
by the data center staff and when I wen to the data center to plug our
servers back in again an "operator" was saying that it's the fan's in
the servers that consume all the power. That's made me think that maby
the temperature in the datacenter might have gone through the roof on
the Monday afternoon and have caused all the R310's fans to kick in on
full power and possible break the pdu?
So my question is really, what should I set the power saving setting to
on the Dell server that are running OBSD. (all 4.9 or 5.0 + amd64)
The link below is for the R310 and is all about the bios / power saving
states.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=R310+os+control&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCoQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dell.com%2Fdownloads%2Fglobal%2Fproducts%2Fpedge%2Fen%2Fpoweredge_r310_techguide_final1.pdf&ei=7VA-T4myMY7B8gOi67WiCA&usg=AFQjCNHE9kqeypH1u6XRcT94GhXS07VPJA&cad=rja
I've now got a APC Netbots with external probes monitoring / graphing &
Emailing so if this happens again I've at least got some environmental
data to help work out why this is happening.
Cheers
Keith
