[OmniOS-discuss] Supermicro X9SRI-F NMI

[Paul B. Henson]

I'm building a storage server using a supermicro X9SRI-F motherboard, 
and I'm trying to set it up to panic on an NMI so in the (hopefully 
unlikely) case the server goes out to lunch at some point, I will be 
able to generate a crash dump and some diagnostics. Right now the box is 
running a test install of omnios bloody.

The board has IPMI capability, and I'm running 'ipmitool -I lanplus -H 
host chassis power diag', which should generate an NMI.

However, instead of a log message indicating an NMI has been received (I 
don't have the /etc/system setting in yet to actually panic), the box 
wedges hard and becomes completely unresponsive.

The board also has an NMI header, although the chassis I have it in does 
not have a button to connect to it. I have not yet tried generating the 
NMI by shorting the jumper as opposed to via IPMI, so I'm not sure if 
that will do something differently.

I've never actually tried this under OpenSolaris/illumos, but am 
assuming it should work more or less the same as under Solaris 10? Has 
anybody tested NMI functionality with a recent illumos and could give me 
at least a starting point that it should be working :)?

Thanks much…