[Linux-cluster] cluster not doing failover

[Jonathan E Brassow]

On Mar 9, 2007, at 5:30 PM, Sai Loganathan wrote:
>             <fencedevices>
>                         <fencedevice agent="fence_ilo" hostname="admin"
> login="admin" name="node1_fence" passwd="admin"/>
>                         <fencedevice agent="fence_ilo" hostname="admin"
> login="admin" name="node2_fence" passwd="admin"/>
>             </fencedevices>

The above line look funny to me.  The hostname for the fence device is 
"admin"?

> Using the cluster ip address (172.40.2.119), I was able to do an nfs
> mount of the shared lun from a 3rd machine. Started an infinite ls on
> that lun.
> To simulate failover, I just powered-down the node1 and hoping to see
> the read io stop but resume via the node2. But, I see the following
> error message on the node 2.
> Mar  9 12:14:49 node2 fenced[7422]: fence "node1" failed
> Mar  9 12:14:54 node2 fenced[7422]: fencing node "node1"
> Mar  9 12:14:54 node2 fenced[7422]: agent "fence_ilo" reports: Can't
> call method "configure" on an undefined value at /sbin/fence_ilo line
> 169, <> line 4.
> Mar  9 12:14:54 node2 fenced[7422]: fence "node1" failed
> Mar  9 12:14:59 node2 fenced[7422]: fencing node "node1"
> Mar  9 12:14:59 node2 fenced[7422]: agent "fence_ilo" reports: Can't
> call method "configure" on an undefined value at /sbin/fence_ilo line
> 169, <> line 4.
>  
> Seems like I am not doing something correct with respect to fencing.
> Can I setup cluster without fencing first of all?

Yes.  You can use manual fencing.  That should only be used for testing 
purposes though... it is not a supported configuration.


  brassow
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