[Linux-cluster] Testing a fence program

Lon Hohberger lhh at redhat.com
Thu Aug 24 17:37:54 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 14:27 -0700, John Anderson wrote:
> It looks like fence_xen.pl, by default anyway, uses ssh to login to the
> remote xen host and shut down or destroy the instance.  That's what I'm
> trying to avoid because of certain rules and regulations I have to
> follow.  
> 
> I went ahead and wrote a gSOAP/libvirt based fencing agent that doesn't
> require any type of shell access and uses SSL client certificate
> authentication.  It solves the problems while keeping the regulation
> Nazis off my back.

That's *cool*; when you get it working, are you going to post it? :)

-- Lon





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