Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Watchdog commands

2007-05-25 Thread Benoit Guillon
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 sever

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Watchdog commands

2007-05-25 Thread Corey Minyard
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

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Watchdog commands

2007-05-25 Thread Benoit Guillon
Carol Hebert wrote: > Quoting Benoit Guillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Carol Hebert wrote: > > .. > >>> >>> Regarding out-of-band watchdog manipulation, of course it's not a good >>> idea for a remote machine to be made responsible for resetting a >>> watchdog timer on any another machine. >>> >>

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Watchdog commands

2007-05-24 Thread Carol Hebert
Quoting Benoit Guillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Carol Hebert wrote: > .. >> >> Regarding out-of-band watchdog manipulation, of course it's not a good >> idea for a remote machine to be made responsible for resetting a >> watchdog timer on any another machine. >> > It depends on the capabilities of t

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Watchdog commands

2007-05-24 Thread Corey Minyard
Benoit Guillon wrote: > Corey Minyard wrote: > >> Benoit Guillon wrote: >> >> >>> Doug Ambrisko wrote: >>> >>> Indeed, the /dev/watchdog should be used when the watchdog is >>> locally armed. The goal here is to remotely start it on another >>> board (for instance to power off the board when th

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Watchdog commands

2007-05-24 Thread Benoit Guillon
Carol Hebert wrote: >On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 08:45 -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > > >>Audet, Jean-Michel writes: >>| Are we OK if I patch IPMITool in the CVS. >> >>Patch it. There are probably some OS's that don't have it built into >>the driver. It won't conflict unless people try to do both at

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Watchdog commands

2007-05-24 Thread Benoit Guillon
Corey Minyard wrote: >Benoit Guillon wrote: > > >>Doug Ambrisko wrote: >> >>Indeed, the /dev/watchdog should be used when the watchdog is locally >>armed. The goal here is to remotely start it on another board (for >>instance to power off the board when there is no PICMG extension like >>"f

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Watchdog commands

2007-05-23 Thread Carol Hebert
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 08:45 -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Audet, Jean-Michel writes: > | Are we OK if I patch IPMITool in the CVS. > > Patch it. There are probably some OS's that don't have it built into > the driver. It won't conflict unless people try to do both at once. > We might want to a

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Watchdog commands

2007-05-23 Thread Corey Minyard
Benoit Guillon wrote: > Doug Ambrisko wrote: > > Indeed, the /dev/watchdog should be used when the watchdog is locally > armed. The goal here is to remotely start it on another board (for > instance to power off the board when there is no PICMG extension like > "fru crontrol" available). >

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Watchdog commands

2007-05-23 Thread Benoit Guillon
Doug Ambrisko wrote: >Benoit Guillon writes: >| Hello, >| >| Strangely enough, ipmitool does not provide the watchdog commands. Here >| is an uncomplete implementation. The feature is handy for resetting >| remote boards when there is no other way to do so. > >This isn't a bad thing to implemen

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Watchdog commands

2007-05-23 Thread Doug Ambrisko
ed watchdog if available. Doug A. | -Message d'origine- | De?: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Doug Ambrisko | Envoy??: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:27 AM | ??: Benoit Guillon | Cc?: ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net | Objet?: Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Watchdog

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Watchdog commands

2007-05-23 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Benoit Guillon writes: | Hello, | | Strangely enough, ipmitool does not provide the watchdog commands. Here | is an uncomplete implementation. The feature is handy for resetting | remote boards when there is no other way to do so. This isn't a bad thing to implement and is a good feature, howev

[Ipmitool-devel] Watchdog commands

2007-05-23 Thread Benoit Guillon
Hello, Strangely enough, ipmitool does not provide the watchdog commands. Here is an uncomplete implementation. The feature is handy for resetting remote boards when there is no other way to do so. Regards, -- BenoƮt Guillon[EMAIL PROTECTED] TCT/3Stel.