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M800 Watchdog

The Audiocodes M800 platform is among Juniper's certified platforms. Of its capabilities, it supports a hardware watchdog which is enabled by way of a user space application. The watchdog will monitor the responsiveness of the operating system and if there is no activity for a period of time, the system will perform a restart.

Installation

The M800 watchdog plugin is obtained from the official SSR software repository.

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The instructions for installing and managing the plugin can be found here.

Configuration

No configuration is necessary to activate this plugin.

Troubleshooting

The plugin is installed on the SSR as a Linux service. To confirm its operation, execute the command systemctl status M800_watchdog.

Feb 12 16:28:11 sol_acm800_dut1 systemd[1]: Started Watchdog for the Audiocodes M800 platform.
Feb 12 16:28:11 sol_acm800_dut1 M800_watchdog[17848]: Watchdog thread active
Feb 12 16:28:12 sol_acm800_dut1 M800_watchdog[17848]: Poked the watchdog
Feb 12 16:28:13 sol_acm800_dut1 M800_watchdog[17848]: Poked the watchdog
Feb 12 16:28:14 sol_acm800_dut1 systemd[1]: Stopping Watchdog for the Audiocodes M800 platform...
Feb 12 16:28:14 sol_acm800_dut1 M800_watchdog[17848]: Interrupt signal (15) received.
Feb 12 16:28:14 sol_acm800_dut1 M800_watchdog[17848]: Destructor called
Feb 12 16:28:14 sol_acm800_dut1 M800_watchdog[17848]: Stop called
Feb 12 16:28:14 sol_acm800_dut1 M800_watchdog[17848]: Watchdog thread signaled to disable watchdog and exit
Feb 12 16:28:14 sol_acm800_dut1 M800_watchdog[17848]: Joined with the watchdog thread
Feb 12 16:28:14 sol_acm800_dut1 systemd[1]: Stopped Watchdog for the Audiocodes M800 platform.

Release Notes

Release 2.0.0

Issues Fixed

  • PLUGIN-768 Support the m800 Watchdog plugin in SSR versions 5.1.0 and greater.