On Thursday 24 January 2008 12:18:11 Dejan Muhamedagic wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 10:00:45AM +0000, Peter Clapham wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > > Following local experience with ipmi stonith, we've found that certain > > systems (i.e. Sun X4200)would occasionally fail to perform a reset. > > Using a power off and then a power on proved far more reliable. So if > > scripts are likely to find their way into mixed environments then going > > the route of the lowest common denominator is probably the best / safest > > way to go ? > > Definitely. However, this seems to be the case where we can't > have a one size fits all solution. Looks like additional > configuration is called for. > > > NB. The script we use has been previously submitted to this > > list. > > While trawling the Internet in search of information on IPMI, I > ran into a tool called ipmipower. According to the documentation > at least, it looks like a more robust software than the ipmitool. > It also has a number of options on how to control the power such > as these: > > on-if-off [on|off] - Toggle on-if-off functionality. > wait-until-on [on|off] - Toggle wait-until-on > functionality. wait-until-off [on|off] - Toggle > wait-until-off functionality. > > This is worth examining. See > https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/ipmipower.html
Its part of freeipmi, so the correct site is http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/ ipmitool follows the concept of "one tool for everything", while freeipmi has a specific tool for each task. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Schubert Q-Leap Networks GmbH _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
