Hi, I'm successfully running the bmc-watchdog on our Sun x2200M2 machines. But on the X4100M2 I see a strange problem: The timer starts counting, but claims to be stopped:
sunserver2 /root# bmc-watchdog -g Timer Use: SMS/OS Timer: Stopped Logging: Enabled Timeout Action: Power Cycle Pre-Timeout Interrupt: None Pre-Timeout Interval: 0 seconds Timer Use BIOS FRB2 Flag: Set Timer Use BIOS POST Flag: Set Timer Use BIOS OS Load Flag: Set Timer Use BIOS SMS/OS Flag: Set Timer Use BIOS OEM Flag: Set Initial Countdown: 900 seconds Current Countdown: 900 seconds sunserver2 /root# /usr/sbin/bmc-watchdog -d -u 4 -p 0 -a 3 -F -P -L -S -O -i 900 -e 540 sunserver2 /root# bmc-watchdog -g Timer Use: SMS/OS Timer: Stopped Logging: Enabled Timeout Action: Power Cycle Pre-Timeout Interrupt: None Pre-Timeout Interval: 0 seconds Timer Use BIOS FRB2 Flag: Set Timer Use BIOS POST Flag: Set Timer Use BIOS OS Load Flag: Set Timer Use BIOS SMS/OS Flag: Set Timer Use BIOS OEM Flag: Set Initial Countdown: 900 seconds Current Countdown: 896 seconds And it continues to countdown. The problem is that I cannot use the watchdog as daemon because according to strace it exits when it sees the timer field is still "stopped". Is anything known about this? I didn't find a hint in the workarounds. The watchdog daemon is disabled in the bios to avoid it resetting when e.g. a file system check takes some time. But so it is on the x2200M2, and those correctly set the field to "Running" after the above call. The ILOM on the 4100M2 is up-to-date (just flashed today). cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
