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Created February 7, 2022 23:35
Solution to Dell PowerEdge server loud fan
Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/j3hh1r/poweredge_r730xd_fans_loud_wont_slow_down_help/
iDRAC Setting Fan Speed on Poweredge R730xd with IPMI (should work with others but cmds will vary with device names
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Reference: https://gist.github.com/mdpuma/8972079b7da52afef15cc039039ff818
1. Get your iDRAC on the LAN and config a username and password
2. In the iDRAC interface (access via web browser), enable IPMI in iDRAC Settings > Network > IPMI Settings
3. Download/install the Dell iDRAC tools for windows (in this case, filename was DellEMC-iDRACTools-Web-WINPE-9.4.0-3732_A00.exe)
4. Open a cmd prompt (iDRAC IP in this example is 192.168.16.2)
5. cd c:\program files\dell\sysmgt\iDRACTools\IPMI