krystiancharubin / idrac-ipmi-fan-controller

Automatically control Dell PowerEdge fans using IPMI

iDRAC IPMI Fan Controller

Automatically control Dell PowerEdge fans using IPMI

1. About The Project
   • Built With
2. Getting Started
   • Prerequisites
   • Installation (local)
   • Environment variables
   • Temperature ranges
3. Usage (local)
4. Usage (Docker)
5. Contributing
6. Acknowledgments

About The Project

This project allows you to automatically control your Dell PowerEdge fan speeds using IPMI tools determined by a customisable temperature range.

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Built With

• Python
• Tabulate
• IPMI Tools

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Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Python 3.8
• Python pip3
• IPMI Tools (https://github.com/ipmitool/ipmitool)

Installation (local)

After installing the projects prerequisites, you will need to install the projects python dependencies using pip3

1. Install Python dependencies using pip3

   pip3 install -r requirements.txt

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Environment variables

This project depends on several environment variables being available to the script, these are described below

Variable	Default	Description
IDRAC_HOST	null	IP address of your iDRAC host
IDRAC_USERNAME	null	Username of your iDRAC host
IDRAC_PASSWORD	null	Password of your iDRAC host
TEMP_RANGES	null	Pipe-separated list of temperature ranges, see below for more details

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Temperature ranges

The temperature ranges environment variable allows you to define a range of temperatures and your desired fan speed (as a percentage). This is set using a pipe-separated string provided as an environment variable (TEMP_RANGES).

Format:
[start of range], [end of range], [fan speed percentage]|[start of range], [end of range], [fan speed percentage]

For example:
30, 40, 5|40, 45, 8|45, 50, 10|50, 55, 20|55, 100, static

This will be parsed as:

Temperature	Fan speed
30c to 40c	5%
40c to 45c	8%
45c to 50c	10%
50c to 55c	20%
55c to 100c	static

static fan speed mode will turn off manual fan control and allow iDRAC to determine what speed the fans should be for the current temperature (default behaviour).

If there isn't a temperature range configured, this tool will use the closest temperature range based on the highest temperature sensor.

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Usage (local)

To run the project locally, execute the controller.py file

python3 controller.py

Usage (Docker)

You can run this project using docker by pulling and running the pre-build image using the following command

docker run -d \
  --name iDRAC_IPMI_fan_controller \
  --restart=unless-stopped \
  -e IDRAC_HOST=<iDRAC host> \
  -e IDRAC_USERNAME=<iDRAC username> \
  -e IDRAC_PASSWORD=<iDRAC password> \
  -e TEMP_RANGES=<pipe seperated list of temp ranges> \
  jamiesage123/idrac_ipmi_fan_controller:latest

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Contributing

Contributions make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

If you have a suggestion to improve this, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also open an issue with the tag "enhancement". Don't forget to give the project a star! Thanks again!

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

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Acknowledgments

Use this project at your own risk and responsibility. Overriding default behaviour may cause irreversible damage to hardware. Always monitor and ensure your hardware is running at safe temperatures.

This project is released under the MIT License.

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