[Linux-cluster] Problems with Cluster

[Manish Kathuria]

On 6/11/07, Maciej Bogucki <maciej.bogucki at artegence.com> wrote:
> Manish Kathuria napisał(a):

> > We want the failover to happen when the power supply fails to either
> > of the nodes. In order to test the scenario, we removed the power
> > cables from one of the nodes. However the failover did not happen and
> > upon observing the logs we found that the alive node could not connect
> > to the fence device (ILO in this case) of the dead node since it was
> > powered off and the fencing could not take place. Does this mean that
> > we would not be able to have a failover in case of power failure for
> > one of the nodes. Is there a way we can do it ? How is the cluster
> > supposed to react when the ILO itself is powered off ?
>
> You need to perform manual fencing(administrator reaction) when it happend.
>

Isn't there any way which is automated and does not require manual
intervention ? Otherwise, the whole purpose gets defeated.