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