Dell EMC OpenManage Server Administrator

Thermal Shutdown

Use this window to configure shutdown when a temperature failure occurs.

NOTE: This help page may include information about features not supported by your system. Server Administrator only displays the features that are supported on your system.
NOTE: When a temperature probe detects an event that satisfies the conditions for temperature warning and failure, the thermal shutdown process may take an average of five minutes.

User Privileges

Table 1. User Privileges
Selection View Manage
Thermal Shutdown Power User, Administrator Administrator
NOTE: For more details on user privilege levels, see Privilege Levels In The Server Administrator GUI.

Thermal Shutdown

Thermal shutdown executes a shutdown to protect an overheating chassis from additional damage that may result from excessively hot temperatures.

CAUTION: The Thermal Shutdown feature is set to Disabled by default. To help protect your system from damage that may result from excessively hot temperatures, you must configure your system to shut down on either a Warning or Critical/Failure event.
Disabled Does not automatically shut down the system when a temperature warning or failure event occurs.
Warning Shuts down the system when a temperature warning event occurs.
Critical/Failure Shuts down the system only when a temperature failure event occurs. Does not shut down the system when a temperature warning event occurs.

Severity Definitions

The severities relevant to thermal shutdown are:

Warning A warning event occurs when any temperature probe inside a chassis reads a temperature (in degrees Celsius) that exceeds the maximum temperature warning threshold. Users can either accept default warning threshold definitions or specify the maximum and minimum temperature warning thresholds.
Failure A failure event occurs when any temperature probe inside a chassis reads a temperature (in degrees Celsius) that exceeds the maximum temperature failure threshold. Users cannot set failure thresholds. Temperature failure thresholds are defined by the system manufacturer.
For an explanation of other buttons present on Server Administrator Action pages, see Server Administrator Window Buttons.