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 > -- Albert Chu ch...@llnl.gov Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list Freeipmi-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel