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[Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun ma
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Al Chu |
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[Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines |
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Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:37:50 -0700 |
Hi Dave,
> I hope I can too! I'll try it on our x4500 and an x4100 when I get a
> chance. Thanks in advance, as normal, Al.
Thanks. PLMK if it works on those two machines.
Al
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 09:08 -0700, Dave Love wrote:
> Frank Steiner <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Al Chu wrote
> >
> >> Hi Frank, Dave,
> >>
> >> I finally got around to trying to develop that workaround into BMC
> >> watchdog to get around the issue on the Sun motherboards you have. Do
> >> you think you guys could try it out and make sure it works for you?
> >>
> >> http://*ftp.gluster.com/pub/freeipmi/qa-release/freeipmi-0.8.7.ignorestateflag.tar.gz
> >>
> >> You have to add the '-W ignorestateflag' option to turn on the
> >> workaround. You'll have to edit /etc/sysconfig/bmc-watchdog to add the
> >> workaround for Linux. Not sure how you would do this on Solaris.
>
> I'll try to figure it out and let you know, as the system I wanted it
> working on is Solaris.
>
> > Seems to work fine on my X4100 M2 machines :-) Starts up, reports status
> > correctly, resets etc.
> >
> > Btw., Sun has confirmed it's a bug that the state flag does not change.
> > The 2nd level support has requested a firmware update for the ILOM, but it's
> > not yet clear if it will be granted.
>
> I didn't realize anyone else was having the same issue.
>
> I'd got as far as confirming it in the latest x4500 firmware and forgot
> to report back on it, sorry. I assume they're not going to fix the ILOM
> 2 that we have, and I'd rather they fixed the hardware so that I didn't
> need the watchdog :-( (or a Nagios event handler currently), but maybe I
> should have tried raising a call on it.
>
> > Thanks a lot for the patch, now I can safely deploy the watchdog on all
> > our servers :-)
>
> I hope I can too! I'll try it on our x4500 and an x4100 when I get a
> chance. Thanks in advance, as normal, Al.
>
--
Albert Chu
address@hidden
Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- [Freeipmi-devel] FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines, Al Chu, 2010/06/15
- [Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines, Frank Steiner, 2010/06/16
- [Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines, Dave Love, 2010/06/17
- [Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines, Al Chu, 2010/06/17
- [Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines, Dave Love, 2010/06/18
- [Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines, Dave Love, 2010/06/22
- [Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines, Albert Chu, 2010/06/22
- [Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines, Dave Love, 2010/06/28
- [Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines, Albert Chu, 2010/06/28
[Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines, Al Chu, 2010/06/18