Corey Minyard wrote: >Benoit Guillon wrote: > > >>Yes, I understand that the watchdog is not provided for that. I've had a >>confirmation by the vendor: the boards do not support those chassis >>commands. What is not clear to me is what the term "chassis" should >>cover. In my case I've several compact pci blades in a rack. Should the >>chassis commands work on the rack itself, or at the board level? >> >> >> >That's a grey area, but it has generally been interpreted as the whole >chassis (see ATCA). > >It all still depends on your system and how it is designed. In a CPCI >system, each board has a BD_SEL line that can be used to control the >power on the board. You system should have some type of shelf manager, >and it should have access to this line somehow. IMHO, that's the right >place to control power in your case. I have used systems where the >shelf manager in a CPCI system has OEM commands to control this. > > Ok, thanks for the hints.
>You can use the "ipmitool raw" command to directly send the OEM commands >(or the watchdog commands, if there is no other way to do this). Using >this is not that hard, and I believe it is safer than giving an ipmitool >interface that might encourage people to use the watchdog remotely > > Ok, anyway i can still secretly use my patch ;-). It would be interesting to put some explanations in the documentation about the recommended way of using IPMI watchdogs, at least to explain why ipmitool intentionally does not give access to that range of commands. 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
