Benoit Guillon wrote: > Corey Minyard wrote: > >> Benoit Guillon wrote: >> >> >>> Doug Ambrisko wrote: >>> >>> 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). >>> >>> >> You should use the chassis power control for that, not the watchdog. >> >> > Yes, but unfortunately the chassis commands don't work here. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ipmitool chassis status > Error sending Chassis Status command: Invalid command Since the chassis commands (at least status and power control) are mandatory for a BMC, I'd suggest you talk to the vendor and point out that they don't have a compliant implementation.
If this is an old blade system (PICMG 2.16 or something like that), there should be some OEM command to do this. The watchdog timer is simply not safe to use here. If the OS on the board is pinging the watchdog, you may not be able to make it time out properly. It's certainly not going to be 100% reliable in that scenario. -corey ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
