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

[Al Chu]

Hey Frank,

Great.  I'll make sure this'll get into the FreeIPMI 0.8.7 release.

Al

On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 01:32 -0700, Frank Steiner wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks a lot for the patch, now I can safely deploy the watchdog on all
> our servers :-)
> 
> cu,
> Frank
> 
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Albert Chu
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory