topic Re: Management Processor reset from O/S in Integrity Servers

Management Processor reset from O/S

rocke robertson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:53:05 GMT

Is there anyway to reset the MP from the operating system like you can on the Sun's? The MP on our rx7640 keeps hanging and it's a REAL pain to walk over/down to the data center.

Cheers

Re: Management Processor reset from O/S

john123 — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:01:02 GMT

Hi,
I think u cant,U have to manually reset it,

Regards
John

Re: Management Processor reset from O/S

Analyst — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:04:46 GMT

As I aware,

NO Its not possible to reset the Management Processor from the OS.

Thanks,
kamal.

Re: Management Processor reset from O/S

rocke robertson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:06:42 GMT

Is it just me, or is this a really important thing to be missing. We have boxes all over the country and need to every now and then reset the MP's that go belly up.

Maybe I'm sniffing too much pesticeds again....

Re: Management Processor reset from O/S

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:08:27 GMT

Hi Rocke:

# stty +resetGSP < /dev/GSPdiag1

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Management Processor reset from O/S

john123 — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:12:59 GMT

When once I tried this

# stty +resetGSP < /dev/GSPdiag1

It didnt reset MP,
Seems like it will work only with old models which has a GSP. Not sure..

Regards
John

Re: Management Processor reset from O/S

rocke robertson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:16:08 GMT

James, I like your way of thinking. My Itanium box is running 11.31. It doesn't have a /dev/GSPxxxx

Is there a 11.31 device that corresponds to the MP / GSP ?

Re: Management Processor reset from O/S

rocke robertson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:59:30 GMT

Upon further reading, I don't think it's possible to reset the MP from the running O/S. I would love to be proven wrong.

I could go on a rant about how poor this is, but I will hold back.

Re: Management Processor reset from O/S

rocke robertson — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:48:29 GMT

Closing thread. Very poor that there is no option to something that should be a default option / offering for an enterprise system.