[Linux-cluster] Which APC fence device ?

Greg Forte gforte at leopard.us.udel.edu
Wed Aug 10 15:01:56 UTC 2005


Eric Kerin wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 10:20 -0400, Greg Forte wrote:
> 
>>There was a message on this list in January to the effect of "does APC 
>>7900 work with fence_apc?" / "I think so ...".
>>
>>Has anyone confirmed this?
> 
> 
> I'm using them in my cluster, they work well with the fence_apc agent.
> 
> The only caveat is that the agent won't work if you use outlet groups
> for cluster nodes, without a few changes to the agent.  I can give you
> my modified version if you want to use outlet groups for cluster nodes.
> (A patch will be coming that will work with both port group and non-port
> group modes, but I haven't had a chance to write it up yet.)

Great, thanks.

I'm new to this sort of hardware, not sure exactly what you mean by 
"outlet groups", could you elaborate?

-g

Greg Forte
gforte at udel.edu
IT - User Services
University of Delaware
302-831-1982
Newark, DE




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