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. The flag does (as I've added to the manpage) ---- "ignorestateflag" - This workaround option will ignore the BMC timer state flag (indicating if the timer is running or stopped) when running in daemon mode. On some BMCs, the flag is broken and will never report that a BMC timer is running, even if it is. The workaround will take notice of changes in the countdown seconds to determine if a timer is running or stopped. With this type of implementation, the reset-period must be large enough to ensure minor fluctuations in the countdown will not affect the workaround. This option is confirmed to work around compliances issues on Sun x4100M2 and Sun x4200M2. ---- (Naturally, I added "confirmed to work around" based on the assumption you guys can confirm it for me :-) Al -- Albert Chu [email protected] Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
