Bmc Self Recovery - Inspur NF8480M5 User Manual

9.11.3 BMC Watchdog for System
Software watchdog can be used for a number of system timeout function by system
management or by BIOS. If software watchdog is triggered, the following actions are
available.
System Reset
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System Power Off
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System Power Cycle
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When BMC watchdog working, BMC will record SEL log.
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9.11.4 BMC Recovery
Users can reset BMC from WEB or IPMI interface in case of abnormal situation.
Warm reset BMC, use "ipmitool mc reset warm", IPMI Server, KVM Server, WEB Server
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will be reset.
Cold reset BMC, use WEB or "ipmtool mc reset cold", BMC will be reset.
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KVM reset, user WEB and KVM server will be reset.
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9.12 BMC Self Recovery

BMC Self Recovery provides the ability of automatic repair operations as well if necessary.
9.12.1 Hardware Watchdog
Known fault scenarios:
Kernel panic
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System resources exhausted or error, system can't create a new task, but the original
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task can continue to run.
Hardware watchdog:
Watchdog starts when uboot loads kernel, and the timeout is 5 minutes. If BMC boot
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timeout occurs, BMC will reset.
After the BMC system starts, the main process resets the Watchdog every minute. If the
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