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 <[email protected]> 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 [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
