On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 03:55:46PM +0100, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote: >On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 05:33:22PM +1100, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: >>I'll start using ipmilan soon with the goal to raplace the sgi-ipmi >>plugin with it. I have two questions. >> >>We have a minimum of two IPMI IP addresses per node. If one of >>them is not responding, we use the other one for the reset >>operation. But before the IMPI reset command, we ping the IPMI IP >>address. We do the ping because we want to know in less than 3 >>seconds if the IPMI IP address is responding to pings instead of >>waiting 50 seconds for an IPMI command timeout. I'm planning to add >>a ping function to ipmilan_command.c, is it a good idea? > >Fine with me. But please have it as an option, sth like >monitor_with_ping which would default to false.
Okay. >>How can I tell ipmilan that I have two two IPMI IP addresses per >>node? > >No way. Unless somebody implements it :) I'll give it a try. >Isn't it a bit of an overkill to have two lights-out devices per >node? If the device doesn't work the next monitor operation would >fail and the admin should notice that. We have a private network and at least a public network. We've defined one IPMI IP addr on the private network and the other one on one of the public networks. If the BMC at the IPMI IP addr on the private network fails, we use the other one. _______________________________________________________ Linux-HA-Dev: [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/
