Re: [Linux-HA] ipmi: power cycle or hard reset

2008-01-24 Thread Chun Tian (binghe)
在 2008-1-24,下午7:45, Chun Tian (binghe) 写道: 在 2008-1-24,下午6:36, Dejan Muhamedagic 写道: 2. external/ipmi cannot work, because ipmitool power reset sometimes successfully reset my server but didn't exit with 0, and I have to modify the script to let it exit 0 when calling with reset ... Un

Re: [Linux-HA] ipmi: power cycle or hard reset

2008-01-24 Thread Bernd Schubert
On Thursday 24 January 2008 12:18:11 Dejan Muhamedagic wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 10:00:45AM +, Peter Clapham wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > > Following local experience with ipmi stonith, we've found that certain > > systems (i.e. Sun X4200)would occasionally fail to perform a reset

Re: [Linux-HA] ipmi: power cycle or hard reset

2008-01-24 Thread Chun Tian (binghe)
在 2008-1-24,下午6:36, Dejan Muhamedagic 写道: 2. external/ipmi cannot work, because ipmitool power reset sometimes successfully reset my server but didn't exit with 0, and I have to modify the script to let it exit 0 when calling with reset ... Under which circumstances was that happen

Re: [Linux-HA] ipmi: power cycle or hard reset

2008-01-24 Thread Dejan Muhamedagic
Hi, On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 10:00:45AM +, Peter Clapham wrote: > Hello, > > > Following local experience with ipmi stonith, we've found that certain > systems (i.e. Sun X4200)would occasionally fail to perform a reset. > Using a power off and then a power on proved far more reliable. So if >

Re: [Linux-HA] ipmi: power cycle or hard reset

2008-01-24 Thread Dejan Muhamedagic
Hi, On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:21:51PM +0800, Chun Tian (binghe) wrote: > Hi, Dejan > > It seems that I have same hardware with you, some HP Proliant DL145 with > Qlogic BMC which (claims to) support IPMI 1.5 > > I tried the IPMI power cycle function and my server didn't got any > response, I th

Re: [Linux-HA] ipmi: power cycle or hard reset

2008-01-24 Thread Peter Clapham
Hello, Following local experience with ipmi stonith, we've found that certain systems (i.e. Sun X4200)would occasionally fail to perform a reset. Using a power off and then a power on proved far more reliable. So if scripts are likely to find their way into mixed environments then going the route

Re: [Linux-HA] ipmi: power cycle or hard reset

2008-01-24 Thread Chun Tian (binghe)
Hi, Dejan It seems that I have same hardware with you, some HP Proliant DL145 with Qlogic BMC which (claims to) support IPMI 1.5 I tried the IPMI power cycle function and my server didn't got any response, I think there may be something wrong between the ACPI interface and server BMC, whi

Re: [Linux-HA] ipmi: power cycle or hard reset

2008-01-23 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Dejna, with my tyan boards I always used power cycle and it never failed on me. ipmitool -I lan -H 10.0.0.52 -E chassis power cycle Thomas ___ Linux-HA mailing list Linux-HA@lists.linux-ha.org http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/lin

[Linux-HA] ipmi: power cycle or hard reset

2008-01-23 Thread Dejan Muhamedagic
Hello, Again on the IPMI. As it says in the subject, there are two ways to reset a host using an IPMI device. The external ipmi stonith plugin uses hard reset and the ipmilan stonith device which is just back goes with the power cycle. Testing ipmilan with the Qlogic BMC device, which claims to