Re: [Freeipmi-devel] Can't read OEM Sensors HP DL360 G6

[Albert Chu]

On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 06:37 -0700, Frank Steiner wrote:
> Reu Peter wrote
> 
> > Hello,
> >  
> > some OEM Sensors can't be read.
> >  
> > Hardware: HP DL360 G6
> 
> As we are planning to buy some HP DL360, can you say sth. about the
> watchdog support for freeipmi? Can the watchdog be handled by 
> bmc-watchdog, or only by ipmi commands? 

Yup, the watchdog can be handled by bmc-watchdog.  Most people run it as
a daemon in the background.  It can be used for the normal watchdog
activities, such as if the OS freezes, the IPMI card can reset the node.
There's more info the bmc-watchdog manpage too.

Hope that helps,

Al


> cu,
> Frank
> 
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Albert Chu
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