On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 06:51:46AM -0800, Dave Love wrote:
> Prentice Bisbal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The advantage of using IPMI is that it is hardware based, so there
> > shouldn't be any OS noise to slow down the MPI calculations.
>
> Yes iff you do it out-of-band, which is probably l
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 02:41:06PM +, Dave Love wrote:
> By the way, the IPMI temperature sensors don't work on our
> H8DCE-HTE/AOC-IPMI20-E Supermicros, although lmsensors does work. Does
> anyone know a fix for that?
We recently had to update our SIMSO firmware to avoid spurious events,
pe
- "Dave Love" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chris Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The reason it worries about high load is that we
> > used to see processes hang trying to read from the
> > IPMI device, but haven't seen that with more recent
> > kernels..
>
> How recent? We've seen
- "Dave Love" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chris Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Well we were told that AD doesn't permit anonymous access.
>
> http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/appnote/15120.html>, for
> example, has instructions for 2000 and 2003 servers.
Thanks! That's useful
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 14:41 +, Dave Love wrote:
> Chris Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The reason it worries about high load is that we
> > used to see processes hang trying to read from the
> > IPMI device, but haven't seen that with more recent
> > kernels..
>
> How recent? We've
Prentice Bisbal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The advantage of using IPMI is that it is hardware based, so there
> shouldn't be any OS noise to slow down the MPI calculations.
Yes iff you do it out-of-band, which is probably less convenient, and is
significantly slower on our systems, at least.
Chris Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The reason it worries about high load is that we
> used to see processes hang trying to read from the
> IPMI device, but haven't seen that with more recent
> kernels..
How recent? We've seen similar trouble on Supermicros with a SuSE 10.3
(2.6.22.17) ke
"Bernard Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Have you considered using software like Cacti or Ganglia ontop of
> rrdtool? It should be fairly easy to add user-defined metrics to
> those systems for graphing.
In case it's helpful, there's a ganglia example of what I used to do
with in-band ipmitool
Prentice Bisbal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I looked at implementing Fedora Directory Server a few months ago to
> provide LDAP services to our Linux systems and synchronize passwords
> with our AD servers.
For authentication, you should use an authentication protocol,
i.e. Kerberos -- what AD
Chris Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well we were told that AD doesn't permit anonymous access.
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/appnote/15120.html>, for
example, has instructions for 2000 and 2003 servers.
> Bear in mind we're Linux geeks here, not Windows geeks.. ;-)
I hope you don't
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