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

[Marek "marx" Grac]

On 06/16/2015 09:37 AM, Eli Mesika wrote:
> CCing Marek Grac
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jason Keltz" <jason.keltz at gmail.com>
>> To: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
>> Cc: "Eli Mesika" <emesika at redhat.com>
>> 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,