[CentOS] How to use watchdog daemon with hardware watchdog driver interface?

Alexander Farber

alexander.farber at gmail.com
Wed Sep 18 07:57:46 UTC 2013


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-hardware-watchdog-driver-interface

Thank you
Alex



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