Re: Fw: [Freeipmi-devel] ibmx3650 reboots after ipmi-sel is unable to get SEL record

[Al Chu]

Hey Won,

On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 19:15 -0800, Won De Erick wrote:
> > From: Al Chu <address@hidden>
> 
> > 
> > Hey Won,
> > 
> > On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 17:43 -0800, Won De Erick wrote:
> > > #bmc-watchdog -d -u 4 -p 0 -n -i 300 -l 0
> > 
> > what is output from bmc-watchdog --get?  You don't define a BMC action
> > (i.e. power cycle, power down, do nothing), so it depends on what the
> > default action is on that system.
> > 
> 
> # bmc-watchdog --get
> Timer Use:                   SMS/OS
> Timer:                       Running
> Logging:                     Enabled
> Timeout Action:              Hard Reset
> Pre-Timeout Interrupt:       None
> Pre-Timeout Interval:        1 seconds
> Timer Use BIOS FRB2 Flag:    Clear
> Timer Use BIOS POST Flag:    Clear
> Timer Use BIOS OS Load Flag: Clear
> Timer Use BIOS SMS/OS Flag:  Set
> Timer Use BIOS OEM Flag:     Clear
> Initial Countdown:           240 seconds
> Current Countdown:           201 seconds
> 
> i just checked my script and my complete implementation was
> 
> bmc-watchdog -d -u 4 -p 0  -n -l 0  -a 1 -i 240
> 
> and not the previous one, my typo.
> 
> I think the SEL could justify that proper timeout action was invoked.
> 
> 1:OEM defined = 00 00 00 00 00 E3 25 86 80 00 00 FF 00
> 2:OEM defined = 00 00 
> 00 00 00 E3 25 86 80 00 00 FF 00
> 3:OEM defined = 02 00 00 FF 00 00 00 00 20 
> 00 00 00 00
> 4:OEM defined = 00 00 00 00 00 E3 25 86 80 00 00 FF 
> 00
> 5:24-Jan-2009 17:09:30:Watchdog 2 Watchdog:Hard Reset
> 6:OEM defined = 
> 00 00 00 00 00 E3 25 86 80 00 00 FF 00
> 

Well, it seems this is the case then.  The watchdog is what triggered
the hard reset.  It's hard to say why the BMC card locked-up/was busy
all of the time.  It probably could have been anything really.

Al

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Albert Chu
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Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory