On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 16:11 -0700, Al Chu wrote: > Hey Carol, > > > As you may recall, during the > > watchdog discussion several months back, we'd decided that full watchdog > > "set" command support is too dangerous and we subsequently had some > > patches pulled from the cvs tree which allowed that functionality. > > I missed the original thread and may not be getting all of it by reading > the archived messages in the improper-thread-order. Why is this deemed > too dangerous? Is it b/c users should be using the ipmi kernel driver > watchdog? While a kernel driver watchdog is best, it may not be > available to many users. Especially those that may not be using linux > (not sure of the driver's porting), but more likely critical to those > that control an appliance w/ ipmitool. i.e. they can manage the > appliance with IPMI, but they can't control the OS on it. > > I would say rather than eliminate watchdog support, put something in the > manpage and help that says, "don't use this unless you really know what > you're doing." > > That's my 2 cents. > > Al > Hi Al,
Thank you very much for your response and comments. :-) Well, you really put me on the spot -- I had to go back nearly a year to find the earlier discussion we'd had about this. Nevertheless, I found it back in May of '07. The initial mail was dated 5/23/07 -- comments against full watchdog set support follow (over a period of a few days I think) from several folks, including Corey Minyard. I believe we'd agreed back then that if anyone wanted to send other types of watchdog set commands (e.g. not simply "off"), then they should use the ipmitool raw command interface -- that it's too dangerous to provide easy access for remote box resets, among other reasons, via watchdog. The code this patch replaces was not in any released version of ipmitool nor was it complete/ready, so we wouldn't be eliminating functionality that folks are generally using now. Thanks very much again for your comments and concerns. I suspected this patch might re-start the discussion. :) Best wishes, Carol ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
