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[Fix] System Board 1 BMC fw health 0 sensor-discrete

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Hi dear. I have found new problem when installing vmware esxi in our Assembly Server. I used Intel ServerBoard S2600CWR with processor Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4. After fresh install and login dashboard vmware via browser, I found problem about System Sensor. System Board 1 BMC fw health 0 sensor-discrete Show yellow Status Warning VMware Esxi 5.5, 6.5, 6,7

In Vmware Esxi dashboard, monitor hardware show Warning, with color yellow. Unfortunately I am not get screenshoot this picture.

After googling, system board 1 bmc fw health 0 is associated with chassis server. See this article. This article show how to fix this problem with  Ensure the chassis lid is properly closed and re-run the BIOS/firmware update.

How To Fix it.

  1. Update BIOS with latest

Launch update BIOS via EFI or UEFI. Depend on serverboard what You have.

  1. Update fru sdr repository

Still in process update bios via “EFI” or “UEFI”. In my serverboard S2600CW have 5 port fan port. But, in my chassis server just install 3 Fan active. So I am doing this step, with disable fan number 4 and 5 in fru sdr repository.

  1. Finish and reboot

After finish and reboot, the problem had gone.

vmware System Board 1 BMC fw health 0

That is System Board 1 BMC fw health 0 in vmware installation. May be it’s helpful, please feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions and I’ll appreciate it.


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