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

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. Thanks, Jason.