Command line options are described below.
-a N Set watchdog event Action to N. Values: 0 = No action, 1 = Hard Reset(default), 2 = Power down, 3
= Power cycle.
-c Show watchdog output in a canonical format, with a default delimiter of '|'.
-d Disables the watchdog timer.
-e Enables the watchdog timer. The timer is not actually started, however, until the timer is reset.
The pre-timeout action is not enabled.
-l Set the watchdog dontLog bit to not log watchdog events in the SEL.
-p N Set watchdog Pretimeout event action to N. Values: 0 = No action(default), 1 = SMI, 2 = NMI, 3 =
Messaging Interrupt. If this is set to an action other than 0, the pretimeout will also be set to
90% of the timeout. However, if the timeout is less than 20 seconds, the pretimeout will not be
enabled.
-q S Set watchdog pretimeout value to S seconds, rather than 90% of the timeout as in -p. The
pretimeout value must be >= 5 and at least 5 seconds less than the timeout value.
-r Resets the watchdog timer. This should be done every N seconds if the timer is running to prevent
the watchdog action (usually a system reset) from occurring.
-tN Set the watchdog Timeout to N seconds. The default is 120 seconds (2 minutes).
-x Causes extra debug messages to be displayed.
-N nodename
Nodename or IP address of the remote target system. If a nodename is specified, IPMI LAN
interface is used. Otherwise the local system management interface is used.
-P/-R rmt_pswd
Remote password for the nodename given. The default is a null password.
-U rmt_user
Remote username for the nodename given. The default is a null username.
-E Use the remote password from Environment variable IPMI_PASSWORD.
-F drv_t
Force the driver type to one of the followng: imb, va, open, gnu, landesk, lan, lan2, lan2i, kcs,
smb. Note that lan2i means lan2 with intelplus. The default is to detect any available driver
type and use it.
-J Use the specified LanPlus cipher suite (0 thru 17): 0=none/none/none, 1=sha1/none/none,
2=sha1/sha1/none, 3=sha1/sha1/cbc128, 4=sha1/sha1/xrc4_128, 5=sha1/sha1/xrc4_40, 6=md5/none/none,
... 14=md5/md5/xrc4_40. Default is 3.
-T Use a specified IPMI LAN Authentication Type: 0=None, 1=MD2, 2=MD5, 4=Straight Password, 5=OEM.
-V Use a specified IPMI LAN privilege level. 1=Callback level, 2=User level, 3=Operator level,
4=Administrator level (default), 5=OEM level.
-Y Yes, do prompt the user for the IPMI LAN remote password. Alternatives for the password are -E or
-P.