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esxi - vm watchdog function / auto-restart failed vm

I am using ESXi 6.5 (free licence). Occasionally, one of my virtual servers (ubuntu 18.04) running on the esxi host freezes. Symptoms: the server is no longer accessible via http(s) or ssh and doesn't respond to ping. It is also not accesible via…
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What minimum hardware watchdog device timeout is considered safe?

I've recently setup watchdog using Intel hardware TCO that does automatically reboot the system it crashes (using Ubuntu LTS). In watchdog.conf you can configure a timeout before reboot. Defaults to 60secs. Since my devices are playing audio in…
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soft lockup in user process and dead lock

I have one issue, at customer machine the user space process is hogging up the processor (soft lockup)along with 2 kernel process and dump stack trace showing RIP at _ticket_spin_lock in all 3 process. As i know "If an user-space process had caused…
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Install watchdog and firewall on Plesk 11.5

As far as I know Plesk arrives with Firewall and Watchdog out of the box, but now I'm working on a new server with Plesk 11.5.30 and I the Extensions Management page is empty. How can I install the watchdog and firewall modules by myself? Thanks!
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Linux watchdog and timing interval

How does the /dev/watchdog timer exactly work? I found a description here and it says that once I open the file from an application I need to update it every 10 seconds. I was wondering is this a hard limit? For example what if I update it in 11…
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CMAN: using SBD (Storage Based Death) and watchdog as STONITH

I'm building up a 2-node cluster based on CMAN + Pacemaker cluster stack, but I have no hardware STONITH devices. However both nodes are connected to a shared storage via iSCSI and I would like to use this for fencing with SBD. SBD is supported by…
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Kill processes if high load average

Not so far ago LA on my server raised to 400 and I couldn't even login to server using ssh. Does exists any software, that can prevent this situations by automatically killing processes that making huge load on server? PS. Debian 6.0.5
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HP ProLiant DL360 G7 watchdog

I have dl360 G7 servers. some times kernel got panic. I understood, that server have hardware watchdog timer. dmesg | grep wdt [ 6.344992] hpwdt 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 6.345563] hpwdt: New timer passed in…
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How do I test my Proxmox VM Guest's Watchdog? (Windows 10 VM)

My Proxmox (Qemu) uses the i6300esb watchdog device driver. Windows shows the Watchdog Timer device under Device Manager. How do I test this? I tried disabling the watchdog device but nothing happened after a few minutes, so that didn't work. The…
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busybox: watchdog - logging

I'm trying to debug a reboot of an embedded device and suspect watchdog might be involved but cannot find any logs. I also cannot find the watchdog.conf anywhere. The device is available at /dev/watchdog Does watchdog log events to anywhere? Can I…
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watchdog: basic configuration options don't work as expected

I run ubuntu 14.04 LTS and watchdog 5.13. My goal is to achieve following: run external check script every 30 seconds reboot if script fails during 300 seconds (e.g. 10 failed attempts in a row) I am having issues with the most basic watchdog…
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Can't get 'max-load-*' feature to work with `watchdog`

I can't seem to get watchdog's 'max-load-*' features working on Ubuntu 14.04 (in a Vagrant VM w/ Virtualbox). From my understanding, it should be fairly straight forward. Here's how I'm testing it. I've set 'max-load-1' to 0.5 for testing purposes…
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launchd as watchdog

Can launchd on OSX (specifically Mountain Lion) be configured to work like watchdog, monitoring processes, after having launched them, to keep them alive? If so, how?
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Does exist a linux service for watching/checking (and restarting, i.e. for a segfault) running daemons?

I'm searching for a linux service that watches/checks every n seconds a list of running processes/daemons for detecting (and noticing+restarting the process) any issues (like a segmentation fault in nginx). Is there any?
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Sun T2000 Solaris 10 Watchdog

Any ideas where the watchdog properties/settings are located on a T2000 running SPARC Solaris 10? Thanks.
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