Hello,

IPMI watchdog hardware on servers can be configured outside the /dev/watchdog 
interface[1].

It would be beneficial if systemd can first get the current timeout value 
(WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT), if not
set, only then set it to RuntimeWatchdogSec. This would ensure that timeout 
values set via other
configuration mechanisms still hold good and the system admin does not have to 
duplicate the timeout
values in /etc/systemd/system.conf (especially for large number of systems, 
remotely). See bugzilla
report[2] for details.

If there are other methods to reduce the number of configuration options that 
the system admin has
to deal with, do share.

[1] http://openipmi.sourceforge.net/IPMI.txt
[2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712

-- 
Thanks,
Charles Rose
Linux Engineering
Dell Inc.
_______________________________________________
systemd-devel mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

Reply via email to