Re: [ovirt-users] problems with power management using idrac7 on r620

On 06/16/2015 09:37 AM, Eli Mesika wrote: > CCing Marek Grac > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Jason Keltz" <jason.keltz(a)gmail.com&gt; >> To: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; >> Cc: "Eli Mesika" <emesika(a)redhat.com&gt; >> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 11:08:35 PM >> Subject: problems with power management using idrac7 on r620 >> >> Hi. >> >> I've been having problem with power management using iDRAC 7 EXPRESS on >> a Dell R620. This uses a shared LOM as opposed to Enterprise that has a >> dedicated one. Every now and then, idrac simply stops responding to >> ping, so it can't respond to status commands from the proxy. If I send >> a reboot with "ipmitool mc reset cold" command, the idrac reboots and >> comes back, but after the problem has occurred, even after a reboot, it >> responds to ping, but drops 80+% of packets. The only way I can "solve" >> the problem is to physically restart the server. This isn't just >> happening on one R620 - it's happening on all of my ovirt hosts. I >> highly suspect it has to do with a memory leak, and being monitored by >> engine causes the problem. I had applied a recent firmware upgrade >> that was supposed to "solve" this kind of problem, but it doesn't. In >> other to provide Dell with more details, can someone tell me how often >> each host is being queried for status? I can't seem to find that info. >> The idrac on my file server doesn't seem to exhibit the same problem, >> and I suspect that is because it isn't being queried. >> > Hi, fence agent for IPMI is based on ipmitool. So if ping/ipmitool is not working there is not much to do about it. I don't know enough about oVirt engine but there is no real place where fence agent can memory leak because it does not run as daemon. m,