M's monitor can reboot the miners remotely, but if the soft reboot fails, it can't reboot. Also, this is a software based solution and not a hardware solution, so when you have to shut it off (Off OFF), you don't have an option.
most of the time, Antminer products with X on the chips will go away, when you do a HARD POWER OFF.
Bitcoin Mining is sadly to say, requires more human attention than running SuperMicro Servers in the data center. Hands & Knee approach is needed
Antminer products will let you reduce as much human interaction as possible, but it is a specialty computer processing unit and requires HUMAN ATTENTION.
At the same time, Antminer has many configurable options and you can still run your own MOD but at your own risk. (Our hardware DOES NOT void warranty for you to open it up and look inside or move things around but when you change the original configuration such as a different cooling fans, different firmware, pencil mod parts into the PCB, often time it will work but when you experience the "OH, SH*T" moment, we may not be able to honor the warranty for you as it was operated outside the safety spec.
if you think you can deploy a farm and just walk away without maintenance and supervision of the farm daily, it will not work at this stage of the mining industry.
Definitely, we have farms that were setup once with a few days of perfecting it, then walked away for months for self operation but that requires hardware and software approach with daily monitoring and on-site staffs for just in case emergency. (Also, all the certification and safety precautions being implemented to include unexpected overheated unit interaction as needed but it is deployed in the way that self extinguishes and no flammable near by)
Warranty wise, any modification from the original configuration will void the warranty or being denied of warranty. It is like Buying a Toyota and replace it with your custom made Tesla Engine in it and blow it up.
I've operated several OTN's and Headend's in large communication companies and fully aware of what you are saying. Being aware of specifications and hardware limitations is a must, and that is why questions are asked and scenario's brought up when things don't happen that are supposed to. Hence my situation with the runaway temperature on Friday I had that confused me.
I believe in keeping a mining rig stock if it works just fine and stays cool, which it does. That's why I have fans sitting in my kitchen not opened or being used, since I thought cooling would have been a problem. But since I do not overclock and not interested in that there was never a need for fan replacements. I impulsively bought them prematurely. Amazon has a great return policy.
We are expected to leave home and go to work and not come home to a fried miner, right? We all check daily on our miners and expect them to perform and run somewhat without human intervention and do understand a reset and a cleaning is due from time to time but if we are running a stock rig and see screen shots of temps over 90c (a couple just here in this thread) are we to assume there could possibly be a problem with the 80c shutdown/freeze/stop option? I can't speak for everyone, but I'm very aware of my miner's temps, hashrate, sound, and how it will react to what I do to it. What you are telling us is nothing new. It's not like you give a year warranty. Sounds like you are justifying if anything happens to one of our miners it automatically is something we changed or modified to it. Innocent until proven guilty, at least it should be. I love Antminer products, but coming from the Spondoolie world which required zero human intervention for months at a time is a whole different world and is something I had to get use to, which I did.
I have a request for a firmware change, or if someone can implement it I think we would be able to "donate" to their efforts since maybe others would be interested in this as well. Since we can't have the software turn the miner off, can we have the firmware kill cgminer and reboot the miner if temps reach 80c? Or something more robust then what it is supposed to do now, which I (we) don't know since we've seen screen shots of 80c+ screen shots. Maybe someone can come up with something better than this request. If the miner is able to reboot successfully at least we'll see that in our pool graphs and knew it happened. It is not a secret that Antminer doesn't release or update a lot of their firmware, which kind of forces us to take that into our own hands if we want the benefits of the new cgminer and features. I only have Spondoolie to compare to recently and I believe my SP10's had over 10-12 firmware updates. The C1 firmware still runs cgminer 4.6 or 4.7 something, right? There have been several fixes and features that we all could use in a new fresh firmware on an older product. I hope Antminer keeps up on updating the firmware and doesn't keep us in the dark when new software rolls out.
I'm ready to start using my linux VPS to learn programming and how to compile software, mostly some firmware.
I always hate to be at the mercy of someone else, but programming was never my niche.
While M's monitor may be able to 'software' reboot the rig it cannot reboot it with a trigger. This is from the horse's mouth.
I asked M's monitor author this question yesterday.
Quote from: opentoe on March 21, 2015, 07:05:38 PM
Is this software able to reboot an S5 when it reaches a certain temp?
Not in its current form.
M
