Watchdog installation Instructions

[kiekar]

Hello,

I did a search for instruction to install watchdog but was unable to find one. Could someone point me in the right direction? Your help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

[w0w]

If you are talking about hardware watchdog that resets entire pfSense when it's not responding then you basically do not need to install anything — https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=124675.msg693718#msg693718
You need to read ipmitool docs, check if you hardware is supported and if it's supported then use cron package to start the reset watchdog timer, something like```
/usr/local/bin/ipmitool mc watchdog reset

[lexxai]

Refresh hardware watchdog timer Watchdog2 in pfSense via IPMI:
https://lexxai.blogspot.com/2017/09/watchdog2-pfsense-ipmi.html