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[Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun ma


From: Al Chu
Subject: [Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:37:50 -0700

Hi Dave,

> I hope I can too!  I'll try it on our x4500 and an x4100 when I get a
> chance.  Thanks in advance, as normal, Al.

Thanks.  PLMK if it works on those two machines.

Al

On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 09:08 -0700, Dave Love wrote:
> Frank Steiner <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Al Chu wrote
> >
> >> Hi Frank, Dave,
> >> 
> >> I finally got around to trying to develop that workaround into BMC
> >> watchdog to get around the issue on the Sun motherboards you have.  Do
> >> you think you guys could try it out and make sure it works for you?
> >> 
> >> http://*ftp.gluster.com/pub/freeipmi/qa-release/freeipmi-0.8.7.ignorestateflag.tar.gz
> >> 
> >> You have to add the '-W ignorestateflag' option to turn on the
> >> workaround.  You'll have to edit /etc/sysconfig/bmc-watchdog to add the
> >> workaround for Linux.  Not sure how you would do this on Solaris.
> 
> I'll try to figure it out and let you know, as the system I wanted it
> working on is Solaris.
> 
> > Seems to work fine on my X4100 M2 machines :-) Starts up, reports status
> > correctly, resets etc. 
> >
> > Btw., Sun has confirmed it's a bug that the state flag does not change.
> > The 2nd level support has requested a firmware update for the ILOM, but it's
> > not yet clear if it will be granted.
> 
> I didn't realize anyone else was having the same issue.
> 
> I'd got as far as confirming it in the latest x4500 firmware and forgot
> to report back on it, sorry.  I assume they're not going to fix the ILOM
> 2 that we have, and I'd rather they fixed the hardware so that I didn't
> need the watchdog :-( (or a Nagios event handler currently), but maybe I
> should have tried raising a call on it.
> 
> > Thanks a lot for the patch, now I can safely deploy the watchdog on all
> > our servers :-)
> 
> I hope I can too!  I'll try it on our x4500 and an x4100 when I get a
> chance.  Thanks in advance, as normal, Al.
> 
-- 
Albert Chu
address@hidden
Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory




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