Dell 1950 Unexplained Reboots

[Gordon Stronach]

Stephen Dowdy wrote:
> Gordy,
> 
> Since you're not able to get the hardware to fail under stress, and you're
> on independent UPSs...
> 
> Is it possible you're hitting a kernel panic and have panic_reboot enabled?
> (panic won't be able to log/flush-buffers so it's deadly and silent)
> 
> cat /proc/sys/kernel/panic
> cat /proc/cmdline
> 
> for panic settings.
> 
> Too bad we don't still have LA120 DecWriter's for consoles so we can
> see what happened the night before ;) But you can always hook up a
> serial console redirection connection to another machine to log it
> to be sure that's not what's happening.
> 
> I think you did say you have all BIOS/BMC updates, right?
> 
> --stephen

Stephen,

Here are the panic settings:

[gstronach at db2-www ~]$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/panic
60
[gstronach at db2-www ~]$ cat /proc/cmdline
ro root=/dev/vgSys/lvRoot panic=60

Yes to the BIOS (2.5.0) DRAC (1.45) BMC (01.33)

How would be the best way to do a console redirection to another machine
and log it to a file ?

Thanks for the help,
--gordy