Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-14 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > I'm a bit confused at this point, Doug.  At what point did the OP state > he has IPMI support or IPMI cards in his system? > He said he had a Dell PowerEdge 2950 - iirc these all have IPMI. Cheers Tom __

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 03:21:42PM +0100, Tom Evans wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Jeremy Chadwick > wrote: > > > > I'm a bit confused at this point, Doug.  At what point did the OP state > > he has IPMI support or IPMI cards in his system? > > > > He said he had a Dell PowerEdge 2950

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-14 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Tom Evans writes: | On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Jeremy Chadwick | wrote: | > | > I'm a bit confused at this point, Doug. ?At what point did the OP state | > he has IPMI support or IPMI cards in his system? | | He said he had a Dell PowerEdge 2950 - iirc these all have IPMI. ... and although

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 07:16:28AM -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > rihad writes: > | On 05/14/2010 04:13 AM, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > | > rihad writes: > | > | Hi, I'm thinking of enabling the watchdog on our Dell PowerEdge 2950 / > | > | FreeBSD 8.0 amd64, so that it reboots the machine in case of loc

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-14 Thread Doug Ambrisko
rihad writes: | On 05/14/2010 04:13 AM, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | > rihad writes: | > | Hi, I'm thinking of enabling the watchdog on our Dell PowerEdge 2950 / | > | FreeBSD 8.0 amd64, so that it reboots the machine in case of lockups. | > | Right now it doesn't work: | > | | > | # watchdog | > | watch

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-14 Thread John Baldwin
rihad wrote: On 05/14/2010 04:13 AM, Doug Ambrisko wrote: rihad writes: | Hi, I'm thinking of enabling the watchdog on our Dell PowerEdge 2950 / | FreeBSD 8.0 amd64, so that it reboots the machine in case of lockups. | Right now it doesn't work: | | # watchdog | watchdog: patting the dog: Operat

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-13 Thread rihad
On 05/14/2010 04:13 AM, Doug Ambrisko wrote: rihad writes: | Hi, I'm thinking of enabling the watchdog on our Dell PowerEdge 2950 / | FreeBSD 8.0 amd64, so that it reboots the machine in case of lockups. | Right now it doesn't work: | | # watchdog | watchdog: patting the dog: Operation not suppor

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-13 Thread Doug Ambrisko
rihad writes: | Hi, I'm thinking of enabling the watchdog on our Dell PowerEdge 2950 / | FreeBSD 8.0 amd64, so that it reboots the machine in case of lockups. | Right now it doesn't work: | | # watchdog | watchdog: patting the dog: Operation not supported | # | Looking through the kernel configur

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-08 Thread Andrew Brampton
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:06 PM, rihad wrote: > Hi, I'm thinking of enabling the watchdog on our Dell PowerEdge 2950 / > FreeBSD 8.0 amd64, so that it reboots the machine in case of lockups. > Right now it doesn't work: > I installed watchdogd on a few 8-core Dell PowerEdge 1950, which I assume ar

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 06:06:15PM +0500, rihad wrote: > Hi, I'm thinking of enabling the watchdog on our Dell PowerEdge 2950 > / FreeBSD 8.0 amd64, so that it reboots the machine in case of > lockups. > Right now it doesn't work: > > # watchdog > watchdog: patting the dog: Operation not supported

Enabling watchdog

2010-05-08 Thread rihad
Hi, I'm thinking of enabling the watchdog on our Dell PowerEdge 2950 / FreeBSD 8.0 amd64, so that it reboots the machine in case of lockups. Right now it doesn't work: # watchdog watchdog: patting the dog: Operation not supported # Looking through the kernel configuration I found two relevant s