Good morning!
On a CentOS 6.4 / 64 bit server I have installed the watchdog 5.5 package.
The rpm -qi watchdog states:
The watchdog program can be used as a powerful software watchdog daemon or may be alternately used with a hardware watchdog device such as the IPMI hardware watchdog driver interface to a resident Baseboard Management Controller (BMC). ... This configuration file is also used to set the watchdog to be used as a hardware watchdog instead of its default software watchdog operation.
In the dmesg output of my server ( full text at http://pastebin.com/GbF7dRt7 ) I see such a device:
NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter. ... ipmi message handler version 39.2 IPMI System Interface driver. ipmi_si: Adding default-specified kcs state machine ipmi_si: Trying default-specified kcs state machine at i/o address 0xca2, slave address 0x0, irq 0 ipmi_si: Interface detection failed ipmi_si: Adding default-specified smic state machine ipmi_si: Trying default-specified smic state machine at i/o address 0xca9, slave address 0x0, irq 0 ipmi_si: Interface detection failed ipmi_si: Adding default-specified bt state machine ipmi_si: Trying default-specified bt state machine at i/o address 0xe4, slave address 0x0, irq 0 ipmi_si: Interface detection failed ipmi_si: Unable to find any System Interface(s) ... iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0 iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.07rh iTCO_wdt: Found a Lynx Point TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x1860) iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
My question is: what should I put into /etc/watchdog.conf to enable the hardware watchdog instead of the default software watchdog mode?
I've also asked this question at http://serverfault.com/questions/539816/how-to-use-watchdog-daemon-with-hard...
Thank you Alex