Doug Ambrisko wrote: > 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. > The same is true for the Linux IPMI watchdog driver. It works just like any other watchdog in the kernel except it has boot-time configuration (and for newer 2.6 kernels, configuration through sysfs). This is documented in the Documentation/IPMI.txt file. There is already a Linux watchdog daemon at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/daemons/watchdog; it is fairly thorough.
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