Supermicro X11SSZ-F Watch Dog feature

[Zalasta]

Hi

I have bought a Supermicro X11SSZ-F but I am not sure if its a good idea to enable Watch dog(jumper on motherboard and bios settings)?

Has anyone any experience with that?

Kind Regards
Jakob

 

[Ericloewe]

Why an X11SSZ-F?

I am not sure if its a good idea to enable Watch dog(jumper on motherboard and bios settings)?

If the system doesn't spontaneously reboot within 10 minutes, it's up to you to decide. It's a slightly greater chance of things going wrong, but it should reboot the server if it goes unresponsive.

 

[Zalasta]

#2
Actually i wanted an ATX MB but the one with IPMI and extra GBe was months in backorder so i
chose a smaller model.

But you are saying that if I choose to enable watch dog there is bigger chance for system failure but it will then reset when it happens?

 

[Ericloewe]

No, I'm saying it's another thing in the system that can go wrong.

In exchange, it allows for some measure of automated recovery from some failure scenarios.