Dmitry Frolov writes: | * Carol Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12.08.2006 07:25]: | > 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. | | Not that I know if anyone working on this, but here is FreeBSD's | watchdogd that can be used as a sample for watchdog daemon | functionality: | | http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/usr.sbin/watchdogd/watchdogd.c
FWIW, the FreeBSD OpenIPMI like driver connects into the generic kernel watchdog so this just works under FreeBSD with watchdogd. So nothing has to be done except to use watchdogd. Doug A. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
