Hello, Thank you for your quick response and info.
I agree the --wait-until-off option is perfect for our needs. The fencing part is required to wait til it really is off and this does it for us perfectly. Thanks much for a great set of tools, very impressive. Steve On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 1:10 AM Al Chu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Steven, > > > My question is that it takes about 5 seconds to complete the command. > > Maybe this is normal? > > It's within range of normal. The IPMI standard says that a power off > informs the motherboard you would like to power off, but the > motherboard is allowed to power off itself sometime in the future. > This "in the future" time is not controllable to you. > > Thus the --wait-until-off option is useful to return once the off is > complete. > > Al > > On Thu, 2020-04-30 at 16:14 +0900, steven prothero wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Greetings! Hope all are good. > > > > I am new to ipmi and starting to experiment with a HA cluster using > > pacemaker and I have everything working fine but the fence agent is > > the bottleneck.... > > > > Using ipmipower to turn off the power works great and the > > --wait-until-off is super useful. > > > > my example test command: > > > > time(ipmipower -D LAN_2_0 -h 10.x.x.x --off --wait-until-off) > > > > My question is that it takes about 5 seconds to complete the command. > > Maybe this is normal? > > > > I used the "ipmi-config" tool (also very useful) to turn off the > > "Per_Message_Auth" as I heard that could slow things down. I also > > tried lower "Retransmission Wait Timeout" but I always seem to be at > > 5 seconds... > > > > Any suggestions to speed this up? My guess is the problem is an old > > IMM unit and not the software but wanted to check and see if anyone > > has experience with this and any tips. > > > > Thank you very much and take care > > > > Steve > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Freeipmi-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users > _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
