Timer Watchdog on PE 1950/2950/2900

[Olivier BONHOMME]

Ronan Mullally a écrit :
> Hi Olivier,
>
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Olivier BONHOMME wrote:
>
>   
>> I am trying to use the timer watchodg functionnality on my Poweredge
>> x9xx series.
>>
>> On these PowerEdge, the watchdog driver doesn't seem to be the i8xx_tco
>> : when I try to load it, modprobe returns a -1 error code with "No Such
>> Device" message. So I decided to compile all Intel Watchdog drivers. The
>> only driver loadable is the iTCO_wdt but when I load it, I have the 'No
>> card detected' on my kernel log and as a consequence it is impossible to
>> control the timer watchdog with that driver.
>>
>> I am working on Fedora Core 6 using a 2.6.19.2 kernel. Can somebody help
>> me telling which driver I must use in order to control the watchdog ?
>>     
>
> I'm using the ipmi_watchdog timer.  You can configure it either via
> arguments on the kernel command line if the module is compiled into the
> kernel (e.g. "ipmi_watchdog.action=reset ipmi_watchdog.timeout=123"),
> giving arguments in modprobe.conf if it's a module, or using the 'wdt'
> utility which comes in the ipmiutil package.
>
>
> -Ronan
>   
Hi Ronan,

Thanks for your answer. The ipmi_watchdog module seem to be the good one :)

Just one more question : did you have to create manually the 
/dev/watchdog device ?

Regards,
Olivier BONHOMME