Why is triggering a panic using the NMI switch on a machine not working?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Unable to trigger panic using NMI switch on the machine even though kernel.unknown_nmi_panic parameter is set to 1 in sysctl

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and later
  • NMI

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