[Linux-cluster] [Linux-HA] Problems with fence_apc agent and accessing APC AP8965

[Marek Grac]

Hi,

On 02/25/2014 01:11 PM, Tony Stocker wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, Marek Grac wrote:
>
>>    it is possible that only sshv2+ is supported now
>>
>>    you can try to change this value in fence_apc directly line is:
>>        options["ssh_options"] = "-1 -c blowfish"
>
> This appears to be the culprit with this issue.  I changed that line to:
>
>     options["ssh_options"] = "-2"
>
> and was successful in getting a status check:
> ...
> I have submitted this information via RedHat's Bugzilla, bug id #1069618.
>
> I greatly appreciate the help.  Now I can send out another email about 
> my main issue, which is figuring out how to get Pacemaker to perform 
> STONITH on a system with power supplies plugged into two different APC 
> AP8965 strips successfully.  Since the fence_apc assumes a single 
> connection, there appears to be no way to use the fence agent to 
> achieve this, I need to figure out how people are doing it.
>
The fence agents are just a part of ecosystem, take a look at

http://clusterlabs.org/doc/en-US/Pacemaker/1.1/html/Pacemaker_Explained/_example_use_of_advanced_fencing_topologies_dual_layer_and_dual_devices.html

m,