[Linux-cluster] fence_ipmilan fails to reboot

[Digimer]

On 06/30/2011 06:03 AM, Parvez Shaikh wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am on RHEL 5.5; and I have two rack mounted servers with IPMI configured.
>
> When I run command from the prompt to reboot the server through
> fence_ipmilan, it shutsdown the server fine but it fails to power it on
>
>     # fence_ipmilan -a <IPMI IP Address> -l admin -p password -o reboot
>
>     Rebooting machine @ IPMI:<IPMI IP Address>...Failed
>
>
> But I can power it on or power off just fine
>
>
>     # fence_ipmilan -a <IPMI IP Address> -l admin -p password -o on
>
>     Powering on machine @ IPMI:<IPMI IP Address>...Done
>
>
> Due to this my fencing is failing and failover is not happening.
>
> I have questions around this -
>
> 1. Can we provide action (off or reboot) in cluster.conf for ipmi lan
> fencing?
> 2. Is there anything wrong in my configuration? Cluster.conf file is
> pasted below
> 3. Is this a known issue which is fixed in newer versions
>
> Here is how my cluster.conf looks like -
>
>     <?xml version="1.0"?>
>     <cluster config_version="4" name="Cluster">
>     <fence_daemon post_fail_delay="0" post_join_delay="3"/>
>     <clusternodes>
>     <clusternode name="blade1.domain" nodeid="1" votes="1">
>     <fence>
>     <method name="1">
>     <device lanplus="" name="IPMI_1"/>
>     </method>
>     </fence>
>     </clusternode>
>     <clusternode name="blade2.domain" nodeid="2" votes="1">
>     <fence>
>     <method name="1">
>     <device lanplus="" name="IPMI_2"/>
>     </method>
>     </fence>
>     </clusternode>
>     </clusternodes>
>     <cman expected_votes="1" two_node="1"/>
>     <fencedevices>
>     <fencedevice agent="fence_ipmilan" auth="none" ipaddr="<IMPI 1 IP
>     Address>" login="admin" name="IPMI_1" passwd="password"/>
>     <fencedevice agent="fence_ipmilan" auth="none" ipaddr="<IMPI 2 IP
>     Address>" login="admin" name="IPMI_2" passwd="password"/>
>     </fencedevices>

Try:

<fence>
   <method name="1">
     <device action="reboot" name="IPMI_1"/>
   </method>
</fence>
...
<fencedevice agent="fence_ipmilan" ipaddr="(IP)" login="admin" 
name="IPMI_1" passwd="password"/>

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