[pve-devel] Blacklisting HP hardware watchdog timer module ?

[Alexandre DERUMIER]

I finally found how to disable watchdog management from dell openmanage.

simply edit :

/opt/dell/srvadmin/etc/srvadmin-isvc/ini/dcwddy64.ini

and comment:

;[HWC Configuration]
;watchDogObj.settings=0
;watchDogObj.expiryTime=480


That's all.


I'll add a note in the wiki.


>>IMHO very dangerous - maybe better to use softdog instead?

In think iTCO_wdt is a good one also, for intel motherboard (integrated in all ich chipsets)


But ipmi can have some avantage with dell, like taking screenshot of kernel panic for example.


----- Mail original -----
De: "dietmar" <dietmar at proxmox.com>
À: "aderumier" <aderumier at odiso.com>, "pve-devel" <pve-devel at pve.proxmox.com>
Envoyé: Jeudi 3 Décembre 2015 19:05:57
Objet: Re: [pve-devel] Blacklisting HP hardware watchdog timer module ?

> but after some minutes (5-10min), 
> I'm seeing it at 480s 

The assumption is that watchdog-mux is the only tool with access 
to the watchdog. I think the watchdog is quite useless if 
someone/something else can change or modify the watchdog timers. 
IMHO very dangerous - maybe better to use softdog instead?