Doug Ambrisko wrote: >Benoit Guillon writes: >| Hello, >| >| Strangely enough, ipmitool does not provide the watchdog commands. Here >| is an uncomplete implementation. The feature is handy for resetting >| remote boards when there is no other way to do so. > >This isn't a bad thing to implement and is a good feature, however, >the OS IPMI driver implementation (if exists) should be used before >the ipmitool one. The reason being is that during kernel panic's >and dumping you probably want to turn of the watchdog for a bit or >if you are in the kernel debugger. So we use the driver implementation. > > Indeed, the /dev/watchdog should be used when the watchdog is locally armed. The goal here is to remotely start it on another board (for instance to power off the board when there is no PICMG extension like "fru crontrol" available).
Regards, -- Benoît Guillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] TCT/3S tel. : 33 (0)4 98 16 33 90 THALES COMPUTERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
