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readme.md

Howto: Setting the fan speed of the Dell R610/R710

Inspired by this Reddit post by /u/whitekidney

Enable IPMI in iDrac
Install ipmitool on linux, win or mac os
Run the following command to issue IPMI commands ipmitool -I lanplus -H <iDracip> -U root -P <rootpw> <command>

Enable manual/static fan speed:

raw 0x30 0x30 0x01 0x00

Set fan speed:

(Use i.e http://www.hexadecimaldictionary.com/hexadecimal/0x14/ to calculate speed)

3000 RPM: raw 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x10

2160 RPM: raw 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x0a

Disable / Return to automatic fan control:

raw 0x30 0x30 0x01 0x01

Other: List all output from IPMI

sdr elist all

Example of a command: ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.0.120 -U root -P calvin raw 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x10

Safety BASH script

I made a BASH script to check the temperature, and if it's higher than XX (27 degrees C in my case) it sends a raw command to restore automatic fan control.

Script Reddit thread

Disclaimer:

I'm by no means good at bash scripting or regex, etc. but it seems to work fine for me.

TLDR; I take NO responsibility if you mess up anything.