> Hello Al, > > On Sunday 23 March 2008, Albert Chu wrote: >> Hey Bernd, >> >> > Hello Al, >> > >> > On Sunday 23 March 2008, Albert Chu wrote: >> >> Hey Bernd, >> >> >> > I still have a problem, though. As with ipmitool sysrqs don't work, >> > although >> > sysrqs are generally enabled. Do you have an idea what might be the >> > problem? >> >> I can't speak for the asus boards, but I know that some motherboards >> cannot support serial-breaks via IPMI, therefore not allowing sysrqs to >> be >> generated. I only know of one vendor that does support it, and I had to >> complain until a firmware fix was finally done. So it wouldn't surprise >> me if serial-breaks via IPMI just didn't work on the asus board. Do >> sysrqs work when you connect via a normal serial cable? > > I would be suprised if sysrqs via serial cable wouldn't work, so far this > was > never an issue with any system I ever tested. But I will make absolutely > sure > on Tuesday when I'm on site. > We have an ipmi stability problem anyway and Asus is presently designing > new > ipmi cards (AFAIK some internal memory of these cards is too small to > cache > all sensors data and then the cards simply crash after some time), so I > will > tell them about the break problem... > (I really need sysrqs, since I'm actually responsible for Lustre and the > day > will come when I need kernel traces to debug a Lustre problem). > > Thanks again for your help and happy Easter, > Bernd >
Hey Bernd, Thanks for working with Asus on it. We use sysrqs here all the time for kernel traces/crashes/etc. The lack of its functionality by a lot of vendors in IPMI has worried us. Getting each vendor to be more IPMI compliant and get IPMI better will be good for all of us. Al -- Albert Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] 925-422-5311 Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
