Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-14 Thread John Baldwin
rihad wrote: On 05/14/2010 04:13 AM, Doug Ambrisko wrote: rihad writes: | Hi, I'm thinking of enabling the watchdog on our Dell PowerEdge 2950 / | FreeBSD 8.0 amd64, so that it reboots the machine in case of lockups. | Right now it doesn't work: | | # watchdog | watchdog: patting the dog:

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-14 Thread Doug Ambrisko
rihad writes: | On 05/14/2010 04:13 AM, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | rihad writes: | | Hi, I'm thinking of enabling the watchdog on our Dell PowerEdge 2950 / | | FreeBSD 8.0 amd64, so that it reboots the machine in case of lockups. | | Right now it doesn't work: | | | | # watchdog | | watchdog:

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 07:16:28AM -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote: rihad writes: | On 05/14/2010 04:13 AM, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | rihad writes: | | Hi, I'm thinking of enabling the watchdog on our Dell PowerEdge 2950 / | | FreeBSD 8.0 amd64, so that it reboots the machine in case of lockups.

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-14 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Tom Evans writes: | On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Jeremy Chadwick | free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: | | I'm a bit confused at this point, Doug. ?At what point did the OP state | he has IPMI support or IPMI cards in his system? | | He said he had a Dell PowerEdge 2950 - iirc these all have

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 03:21:42PM +0100, Tom Evans wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: I'm a bit confused at this point, Doug.  At what point did the OP state he has IPMI support or IPMI cards in his system? He said he had a Dell

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-14 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: I'm a bit confused at this point, Doug.  At what point did the OP state he has IPMI support or IPMI cards in his system? He said he had a Dell PowerEdge 2950 - iirc these all have IPMI. Cheers Tom

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-13 Thread Doug Ambrisko
rihad writes: | Hi, I'm thinking of enabling the watchdog on our Dell PowerEdge 2950 / | FreeBSD 8.0 amd64, so that it reboots the machine in case of lockups. | Right now it doesn't work: | | # watchdog | watchdog: patting the dog: Operation not supported | # | Looking through the kernel

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-13 Thread rihad
On 05/14/2010 04:13 AM, Doug Ambrisko wrote: rihad writes: | Hi, I'm thinking of enabling the watchdog on our Dell PowerEdge 2950 / | FreeBSD 8.0 amd64, so that it reboots the machine in case of lockups. | Right now it doesn't work: | | # watchdog | watchdog: patting the dog: Operation not

Enabling watchdog

2010-05-08 Thread rihad
Hi, I'm thinking of enabling the watchdog on our Dell PowerEdge 2950 / FreeBSD 8.0 amd64, so that it reboots the machine in case of lockups. Right now it doesn't work: # watchdog watchdog: patting the dog: Operation not supported # Looking through the kernel configuration I found two relevant

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 06:06:15PM +0500, rihad wrote: Hi, I'm thinking of enabling the watchdog on our Dell PowerEdge 2950 / FreeBSD 8.0 amd64, so that it reboots the machine in case of lockups. Right now it doesn't work: # watchdog watchdog: patting the dog: Operation not supported #

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-08 Thread Andrew Brampton
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:06 PM, rihad ri...@mail.ru wrote: Hi, I'm thinking of enabling the watchdog on our Dell PowerEdge 2950 / FreeBSD 8.0 amd64, so that it reboots the machine in case of lockups. Right now it doesn't work: I installed watchdogd on a few 8-core Dell PowerEdge 1950, which I