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thermal command

Use this command to display and configure the thermal mode policy of the host system.

Running the thermal command with no options displays the thermal mode policy. The following table shows the arguments for the options.

Syntax:
thermal [-options]
Table 1. thermal options
OptionDescriptionValues
-modeDisplay the thermal mode policy and configures the thermal table of the host systems (read only)
  • General Computing - Power Efficiency
  • General Computing - Peak Frequency
  • General Computing - Max Performance
  • Virtualization - Power Efficiency
  • Virtualization - Max Performance
  • Database - Transaction Processing
  • Low Latency
  • High Performance Computing
  • Custom
  • Unknown
-table table_numbertable_number specifies which alternate thermal table to use.

1 = Low: Slight boost in fan speed

2 = Medium: Moderate boost in fan speed

3 = High: Large boost in fan speed

0 = Normal: No fan speed boost

Example:
system> thermal
-mode normal
-table 80860126 1 10DE0DFA 3
system>