C7000 enclosure fan location rules – HP Onboard Administrator User Manual
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Row
Description
Serial Number
The unique serial number of the fan.
Diagnostic Information
Diagnostic information is gathered by polling a device microcontroller (resulting in a degraded status if a
failure has occurred) or is sent by the device microcontroller, without being polled to report a failure.
Row
Description
Device Identification
Data
Information such as model name, part number, serial number, and other information
used to identify the device is checked. This data is also referred to as FRU data. If the
data is not present or not readable by the Onboard Administrator, a device
identification data error displays. Possible values are OK or Error.
Device Location
Incorrect fan location. Possible values are OK or Incorrect location for proper device
cooling.
Device Operational
Device has failed; status was not requested by the Onboard Administrator.
Device Degraded
Device has failed; status was requested by the Onboard Administrator.
Fan Presence
This field indicates whether a fan is required to support the current fan rule.
Device Mismatch
This field indicates different fan models are installed in the same enclosure and you
need to install the same fan models in each bay.
Fan models
The c3000 enclosure supports Active Cool 100 Fan and Active Cool 200 Fan models. The c7000 enclosure
only supports the Active Cool 200 Fan model. You cannot mix fan models in the c3000 enclosure. If you mix
fan models or you put the wrong fan model in the enclosure you see a Device Mismatch error in the
Diagnostic Information table.
To update the fan information, click Refresh.
For proper installation of the fans into the enclosure, see the HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure Setup and
Installation Guide.
c7000 Enclosure fan location rules
The HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure ships with four HP Active Cool fans and supports up to 10 fans. You
must install fans in even-numbered groups, based on the total number of server blades installed in the
enclosure, and install fan blanks in unused fan bays.