[Linux-cluster] Monitoring the fencing device

[Lon Hohberger]

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 13:25 +0200, Federico Simoncelli wrote:

> I know I can use multiple fencing devices but I'm trying to keep the
> solution as cheap as possible.

> I am thinking to write a cron job (hourly?) to check the ips status
> (fence_wti -T ...) and notify by mail if unreachable.
> Any other idea?

You could do that - and it would be quite clean.  The other advantage is
that all nodes could do it at roughly the same time.

(Note the IPS doesn't allow >1 login at a time - but you can 'ping' it.)

-- Lon