[OmniOS-discuss] Supermicro X9SRI-F NMI

[Paul B. Henson]

On 3/25/2013 12:45 PM, Eric Sproul wrote:

> Last year when I was testing KVM on a Sandy Bridge box, I was hitting
> https://github.com/joyent/illumos-kvm/issues/1 and trying to
> troubleshoot via NMI.  I had the X9SRA board, which is similar to
> yours.  I didn't have IPMI or a chassis button, so I was attempting to
> short the appropriate pins.  I recall that I saw an NMI message on the
> console, but the system did not panic.

By default it only logs a message that it received an NMI, you need to 
add "set pcplusmp:apic_panic_on_nmi=1" to /etc/system and reboot before 
it will actually panic on one.

Thanks for the data point; I guess I'll go ahead and pop open the box 
and try shorting the jumpers directly to see if that behaves any 
differently. It will be disappointing if the ipmi interface isn't able 
to generate the same NMI functionality as the physical button, both from 
the lack of ability to do it remotely and that I'll need to get some 
physical button and wire it through a PCI slot blank or something 8-/.