> Deployed successfully for a number of months until we realized it > couldn't quite do for us what we wanted (generate netdumps via SMI > interrupts).
Hmm. For the record, the issue was an interrupt issue in the kernel. Not anything having to do with the BMC's ability to generate the interrupt. Al > > Al > > On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 17:12 -0700, Carol Hebert wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking into what it would take to write a watchdog daemon and am > > trying to put together a list of requirements. I guess the first thing > > I need to know is whether anyone else is currently working on an ipmi > > watchdog daemon? If anyone on this mailing list is currently working on > > such a daemon, please let me know. > > > > The next question is (assuming an ipmi watchdog daemon isn't already in > > the works by someone): where would be the best place for such a daemon > > to reside? I think that including it with ipmitool might be the right > > place, since that's where ipmievd lives. Please let me know if you > > disagree and feel it belongs in the OpenIPMI library or elsewhere > > instead. > > > > I thought I'd also start discussing requirements and let those in this > > forum help decide what are the correct set of features/functionality. > > Please respond if you have any comments/opinions/questions on any of > > these points or if you have others you would like to have added to the > > list. > > > > Thank you very much for your help, > > > > Carol Hebert > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > > IPMI Watchdog Daemon Requirements/functionality: > > > > 1.) We probably want to have the daemon work strictly in-band (at least > > for the first go-round). The open ipmi_watchdog driver appears to have > > a great ioctl interface for watchdog timer manipulation and reset. > > Also, it seems like users won't want network latency or problems to > > possibly cause their boxes to be reset as would probably be the risk > > with an out-of-band interface. > > > > 2.) We probably want to allow the user to set possible parameters on > > the command line when starting the daemon (timeout, pre-timeout, action, > > pre-action, operation, start now, no way out). These settings should > > over-ride any settings made via ipmi.init/ipmi.sysconf. There should > > also be some default values for most of these for parameters where > > neither the init script nor the daemon were made to explicitly set the > > parameter values. > > > > 3.) The daemon would first check to make sure the timer wasn't already > > in-use (ipmi_open() does this) and then just basically set up the > > watchdog as per the parameter settings to execute the behaviors set via > > the various parameters. The daemon would send a periodic keepalive poke > > to reset the timer (available via ipmi_ioctl() ) and would also provide > > a signal handler to cleanly stop the watchdog timer in case the daemon > > terminated so the box wouldn't get reset because the watchdog daemon > > died in an otherwise healthy system. The signal handler would also free > > up the timer for use by another app (ipmi_close() does this for us). > > > > 4.) We could include pidfile support for the watchdog daemon but is > > that something we need? > > > > 5.) Other functionality? > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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