Owner's Manual

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Setting the Watchdog Timer
The Watchdog Timer restarts your server, turns off your server, or cycles power to your server
in your absence. If any event hangs the server, the Watchdog Timer takes the action you set.
To set the Watchdog Timer:
1 From the BMC Web server main screen, click Watchdog Timer on the left side of the screen.
The Watchdog Timer screen opens.
2 Open the Log Timeout list, then select an option.
• True—Logs the timeout.
• False—Does not log the timeout.
3 Open the Action on Timeout list, then set the action on timeout.
• No Action—No action is taken.
• Hard reset—A warm reboot (like pressing the reset button).
• Power down—The system is turned off.
• Cycle power—The system is shut down, then powered up again after a brief pause
(a cold reboot).
4 Click Timeout Interval to set the interval after a hang, before the Action on Timeout is
triggered. The default interval is 300 seconds.
5 Click Set Watchdog to set the Watchdog Timer.