Do ipmiutil, ipmitool and redfishtool use different timers for watchdog?

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So are there different timers? When I change the timeout action with redfishtool's PATCH, it doesn't seem to affect whatever ipmitool is looking at. ipmitool still reports "No action".

$ redfishtool -v -r <ip> -u <user> -p <password> raw PATCH -d '{"HostWatchdogTimer": {
        "FunctionEnabled": true,
        "Status": {
            "State": "Enabled"
        },
        "TimeoutAction": "ResetSystem"
    }}' /redfish/v1/Systems/System.Embedded.1

... # printed the whole Systems patch

$ ipmitool mc watchdog get
Watchdog Timer Use:     SMS/OS (0xc4)
Watchdog Timer Is:      Started/Running
Watchdog Timer Actions: No action (0x00)
Pre-timeout interval:   0 seconds
Timer Expiration Flags: 0x00
Initial Countdown:      480 sec
Present Countdown:      473 sec
$ redfishtool -v -r <ip> -u <user> -p <password> raw GET /redfish/v1/Systems/System.Embedded.1 | grep Watchdog -A 6
    "HostWatchdogTimer": {
        "FunctionEnabled": true,
        "Status": {
            "State": "Enabled"
        },
        "TimeoutAction": "ResetSystem"
    },

And then I tried changing the Timeout Action with ipmiutil, but neither ipmitool nor redfishtool seem to be affected.

$ ipmiutil wdt -a 3
ipmiutil wdt ver 3.12
-- BMC version 2.81, IPMI version 2.0
wdt data: c4 00 00 00 c0 12 81 12
Watchdog timer is started for use with SMS/OS. DontLog
               pretimeout is 0 seconds, pre-action is None
               timeout is 480 seconds, counter is 473 seconds
               action is No action
Setting watchdog timer to 120 seconds ...
wdt data: 44 03 00 00 b0 04 b0 04
Watchdog timer is started for use with SMS/OS. Logging
               pretimeout is 0 seconds, pre-action is None
               timeout is 120 seconds, counter is 120 seconds
               action is Power cycle

ipmiutil wdt, completed successfully

$ ipmitool mc watchdog get
Watchdog Timer Use:     SMS/OS (0xc4)
Watchdog Timer Is:      Started/Running
Watchdog Timer Actions: No action (0x00)
Pre-timeout interval:   0 seconds
Timer Expiration Flags: 0x00
Initial Countdown:      480 sec
Present Countdown:      475 sec

How do I get ipmiutil to show its perceived watchdog status? I tried calling it with no arguments, but that just seems to change things back to a default setting. I was thinking, maybe I can use ioctl, and redfishtool will recognize the changes, but according to this page, there's no way to change the Timeout Action from there. Am I missing something?

Do ipmiutil, ipmitool and redfishtool use different timers for watchdog?

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