Originally posted by: harigm

Hi,

   This post is about a new feature in PowerVM - Simplified Remote Restart. The attachement contains a white paper (Simplified Remote Restart White Paper.pdf) which provides a brief overview of the feature, configuration requirements and description of how to create/activate a remote restart partition and how to use the remote restart functionality.

Also, there is an example script (rrMonitor, which is not officially supported), which shows how a system can be monitored for failure and remote restart can be triggered automatically. Below are some notes on the example script

1. Monitors cec state in time interval specified by user and triggers remote restart if the system goes to "Error"  or "Error - Dump in progress" state
2. Clean up is not performed by the script
3. While monitoring, performs check for remote restart status and refreshes the configuration data, if needed.
4. Performs validate for remote restart operation while monitoring in regular intervals

Thanks.