IPMI watchdog does not work on server which has iTCO enabled hardware

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Issue

During integration problem with watchdog was discovered:

On Legacy machines I’m receiving following message and watchdog is not started

# service ipmi restart
Stopping all ipmi drivers:                                 [  OK  ]
Starting ipmi drivers:                                     [  OK  ]
Starting ipmi_watchdog driver:
 kernel:IPMI Watchdog: Unable to register misc device
                                                           [  OK  ]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
  • TIGW1U

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