On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:42:43PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Michal Bachorik - Sun Microsystems - Prague Czech Republic wrote: > >> > >>Also is there any impact to having these freeimpi daemons running > >>given Solaris already has FMA ? > >FMA is about a local machine auto-recovery while freeipmi is able to > >watch IPMI events from remote machines and perform for example: > >- power-cycle remotely if needed. > >- shut down/startup machine if needed > > I don't think the question here was answered... what is the impact on > local FMA on a machine using freeipmi? Can freeipmi be used to monitor > a local machine and notify FMA? Is it necessarily true that there is > no overlap between these subsystems?
Most importantly: is there any negative impact on FMA? But also, FMA and SMF both seem to allow for the possibility of a networked future in that FMRIs are practically URIs. So maybe it's time to fund a project to make that happen? (That could be advice by the ARC to the PAC.) Nico --
