Knowledge Article: ID B000FF1BA: Cooling zone might not have adequate cooling

Description

One or more fan modules in the specified cooling zone have failed or have been removed.

Causes

One or more fan modules in the specified cooling zone have failed or have been removed.

Implications

If additional fan modules fail or are removed, chassis devices might shut down or throttle because of excessive temperatures. Consider moving applications that are running on nodes in the specified cooling zone to nodes in another cooling zone to ensure the availability of those applications. Note that the fan modules might run faster than normal to compensate for reduced cooling.

Resolutions

Complete the following steps until the problem is solved:

  1. If you removed a fan module, replace the fan module.
  2. Look in the Chassis Management Module event log for errors related to fan module events, and solve them.

Additional information

To find additional troubleshooting help, visit the "IBM Support & downloads" Web site. At "IBM Support Portal: Quick start" page, select Browse for "Choose your products", select your Chassis from PureFlex System under the Hardware list, and "Troubleshoot" for "Choose your page", then select "Continue" for "See your results". To narrow the results, search with keywords that are related to this article, such as "fail", "Chassis", etc. in the "Search support" field at the right panel.

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