On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 04:51:57PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > Unfortunately, every once in a while, the IPMI BMCs on my test systems > simply stop talking to the network. This isn't overly tragic since I can > have a process go over to such a board when it detects that pings have > stopped working and use a local IPMI command to cold rest the BMC, but > it is still really Not The Right Thing.
Hey, you're lucky that you have a way to reset the BMC without power cycling the box. It is not unusual for IPMI implementations to be much buggier. > Also, I suspect every once in a > great while I'll get a simultaneous OS and IPMI BMC failure and shoe > leather will be needed to reset the box, which I don't like. Belt and suspenders -- that's what remote-controlled power strips are for. It doesn't sound like you'd see a double-failure very often. -- greg _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
