Bug 245221
| Summary: | IPMI Fence Agent does not support IPMIv2.0 protocol (aka "lanplus") | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Cluster Suite | Reporter: | Celso K. Webber <celsowebber> | ||||||
| Component: | clumanager | Assignee: | Lon Hohberger <lhh> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Cluster QE <mspqa-list> | ||||||
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||||
| Version: | 3 | CC: | cluster-maint | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
| URL: | https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-cluster/2007-May/msg00279.html | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2007-07-11 18:48:33 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||||
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Description
Celso K. Webber
2007-06-21 18:52:58 UTC
Created attachment 157562 [details]
This is my "wrapper script" for the ipmitool command
Created attachment 157944 [details]
Untested patch; compiles
If applied to a current rhcs3 / clumanager source base, this patch should
enable the use of lanplus.
With the patch applied, putting a plus sign before the user name (or a plus
sign *as* the user name if you were not using a username) enables lan+
operation.
I tested the patch, and it correctly sets lanplus as noted previously. Above patch is mostly a backport of the current ipmi fence agent from Red Hat Cluster Suite 4 (and 5). There are a couple of things to be aware of: * Ipmitool is not shipped by Red Hat for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. The ipmilan.so driver for Red Hat Cluster Suite 3 was intended to support a select few machines where the IHV provided ipmitool as part of their own supplemental software package. * Adding new(er) hardware support to Red Hat Cluster Suite 3 unlikely to happen. Hello, this is great news that the port from Cluster Suite 4 (and 5) worked as expected. About your notes: * the OpenIPMI, OpenIPMI-libs and OpenIPMI-tools are shipped for RHELv3 through RHN since the end of 2005, if I am not wrong. I believe these were added when the IPMI fence method started to be a supported fencing mechanism for Cluster Suite v3 (I'm not sure about this, though); * I agree that Cluster Suite 3 is being retired as it is a completely different software from Cluster Suite v4 and v5, right? Important question: is there an estimated date for this update in the clumanager package of CS3 to be released through RHN? How could I test this in our environment just to give you a user's perspective feedback of the functionality? You are correct; we do ship OpenIPMI for RHEL3; the current package is here: https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/packages/details.pxt?pid=407555 However, given: * a workaround exists (your script), * this is still adding hardware support, and * this is not sufficient to warrant an erratum (because it is new hardware support), ... it is unlikely that this will be released by itself. * You have a support request open, and you may ask them to request this patch to be released as an erratum against Red Hat Cluster Suite 3 on your behalf. * Given that on Red Hat Cluster Suite 3, there is the option of not using any fencing at all (though there is a strong recommendation against this practice, as it is dangerous), your workaround should *not* any present or future problems from a support perspective. * This hardware is supported in Red Hat Cluster Suite 4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for cluster fencing. |