[Linux-cluster] Fencing agents on DELL PowerEdge servers

Andrew C. Dingman adingman at cookgroup.com
Wed Feb 15 13:22:51 UTC 2006


OK, got it. My clusters use GFS and the gulm bridge, so I'd missed the
distinction.

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 17:14 -0500, Lon Hohberger wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 16:10 -0500, Andrew C. Dingman wrote:
> > I'm not entirely sure I know which cluster suite versions you mean, but
> > using the cluster suite sold for with RHEL 3 all the fencing devices
> > were Perl scripts. 
> 
> GFS for RHEL3 used perl scripts.
> 
> RHCS for RHEL3 used binary modules.
> 
> > I managed to write a couple of my own using the
> > examples, one a modified agent for APC 7901 power strips and one for
> > DRAM/MC devices in blad chassis. The DRAC/MC one is vastly simpler, and
> > it seems that one for a regular drac would be even a bit easier. Cluster
> > Suite in RHEL 4 supports DRACs out of the box in the GUI, though I
> > haven't tested it.
> 
> For GFS on RHEL3 and RHEL4 (and RHCS on RHEL4), the fencing agents are
> interchangeable.
> 
> -- Lon
> 
> 
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