Why is triggering a panic using the NMI switch on a machine not working?
Issue
- Unable to trigger panic using NMI switch on the machine even though "kernel.unknown_nmi_panic" parameter is set to "1" in /etc/sysctl.conf file.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 or 7
- NMI
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