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Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmipower : How long does it take for a power off?
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steven prothero |
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Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmipower : How long does it take for a power off? |
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Fri, 1 May 2020 10:40:41 +0900 |
Hello,
Thank you for your quick response and info.
I agree the --wait-until-off option is perfect for our needs. The
fencing part is required to wait til it really is off and this does it
for us perfectly.
Thanks much for a great set of tools, very impressive.
Steve
On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 1:10 AM Al Chu <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi Steven,
>
> > My question is that it takes about 5 seconds to complete the command.
> > Maybe this is normal?
>
> It's within range of normal. The IPMI standard says that a power off
> informs the motherboard you would like to power off, but the
> motherboard is allowed to power off itself sometime in the future.
> This "in the future" time is not controllable to you.
>
> Thus the --wait-until-off option is useful to return once the off is
> complete.
>
> Al
>
> On Thu, 2020-04-30 at 16:14 +0900, steven prothero wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Greetings! Hope all are good.
> >
> > I am new to ipmi and starting to experiment with a HA cluster using
> > pacemaker and I have everything working fine but the fence agent is
> > the bottleneck....
> >
> > Using ipmipower to turn off the power works great and the
> > --wait-until-off is super useful.
> >
> > my example test command:
> >
> > time(ipmipower -D LAN_2_0 -h 10.x.x.x --off --wait-until-off)
> >
> > My question is that it takes about 5 seconds to complete the command.
> > Maybe this is normal?
> >
> > I used the "ipmi-config" tool (also very useful) to turn off the
> > "Per_Message_Auth" as I heard that could slow things down. I also
> > tried lower "Retransmission Wait Timeout" but I always seem to be at
> > 5 seconds...
> >
> > Any suggestions to speed this up? My guess is the problem is an old
> > IMM unit and not the software but wanted to check and see if anyone
> > has experience with this and any tips.
> >
> > Thank you very much and take care
> >
> > Steve
> >
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