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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=903085817-09082007>Dear list
members,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=903085817-09082007>I have in production
a RHCS cluster composed of three RHEL4u5 nodes that use GFS. Initially, I first
put no fence device on the nodes. I just defined a manual fence device without
associating it to the nodes. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=903085817-09082007>As the GFS file
system is not accessible when I'm rebooting one of the three nodes, I'm
realizing the importance of fence devices.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=903085817-09082007>I just defined
manual fence devices for the three nodes, but I read that manual fence
device is not a good idea for production environment.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=903085817-09082007>My machines are SUN
Fire X4100. I see that we can define a fence device of type HP ILO. I would like
to know if I can use the HP ILO form in system-config-cluster tool to enter and
use a SUN ILOM as fence device?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=903085817-09082007>If so, do you have
any points I should pay attention for when I will define them? I recall
that I'm working on a production environment and I'm scary to put things
worst that they already are.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=903085817-09082007>Thank you very
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<P align=left><FONT size=2>__________________<BR><BR>Stéphanie
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