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Updated: August 2016
 
 

Start and Stop Errors

The errors shown in the following table appear when the HMP Watchdog Agent has not been started or has stopped. You might see these messages when you run any ilomconfig commands with the hostwatchdog or ilomwatchdog targets.

Error Message
Cause
Solution
ERROR: HMP watchdog agent is not started.
HMP Watchdog Agent has not started.
Run the following command to start HMP watchdog:
service hmp_watchdogd start
ERROR: HMP watchdog agent is stopped.
HMP Watchdog Agent has been stopped by SIGSTOP.

Note -  It is dangerous to suspend the operation of the HMP Watchdog Agent by sending it the SIGSTOP signal.

It is possible that host watchdog is already enabled, and if the HMP Watchdog Agent is suspended long enough such that host watchdog is not able to reset the IPMI watchdog timer, the IPMI watchdog timer can expire, and Oracle ILOM performs the timer action which can reset the host.

Send a SIGCONT to the HMP Watchdog Agent's process ID as follows:
  1. Get the HMP Watchdog Agent's process ID from the /var/run/sun-ssm-hmp-watchdogd.pid file.

  2. Run the following command:

    kill -CONT PID

    where PID is the process ID that you identified in Step 1.