Bug 1498724 – [Nimble Storage] Add APTPL flag to fence_mpath and make multipath-tools honor APTPL bit on registrations

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Bug 1498724 - [Nimble Storage] Add APTPL flag to fence_mpath and make multipath-tools honor APTPL bit on registrations

Summary:	[Nimble Storage] Add APTPL flag to fence_mpath and make multipath-tools honor...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	device-mapper-multipath (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.6
Hardware:	x86_64 Linux

Priority	unspecified Severity urgent
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Ben Marzinski
QA Contact:	Lin Li
Docs Contact:	Marek Suchanek

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Depends On:	1306887
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Reported:	2017-10-05 00:45 EDT by Ben Marzinski
Modified:	2018-10-30 07:28 EDT (History)
CC List:	12 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-120.el7
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	multipathd can now correctly set APTPL when registering keys on path devices Previously, the multipathd service did not track which devices registered their persistent reservation keys with the Activate Persist Through Power Loss (APTPL) option. As a consequence, registrations always lost the APTPL setting. With this update, the problem has been fixed: * If you set the "reservation_key" option to a file in the `multipath.conf` configuration file, multipathd now keeps the APTPL setting automatically. * If you set "reservation_key" to a specific key, you can now add the ":aptpl" string at the end of the key in "reservation_key", which enables APTPL for it. Set this to match the APTPL setting used when registering the key.
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Clone Of:	1306887
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Last Closed:	2018-10-30 07:27:28 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2018:3236	None	None	None	2018-10-30 07:28 EDT

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Comment 2 Lin Li 2018-04-07 23:21:55 EDT

Hello shivamerla1,
Because there is no Nimble Storage in our lab, could you help provide test result once the package is available?
thanks!

Comment 4 Ben Marzinski 2018-06-13 10:29:09 EDT

Multipath now supports an optional extension to the reservation_key parameter. You can now set reservation_key to "<key>:aptpl".  This will inform multipathd to set the APTPL bit when registering keys on paths, when they come back up. For this to work correctly, you must also set --param-aptpl when using mpathpersist to register the key. If you set reservation_key to "file", multipath will automatically track which devices need the APTPL bit set by multipathd, depending on which devices you register keys with using the --param-aptpl option
for mpathpersist.

Comment 6 Lin Li 2018-08-22 05:14:03 EDT

Hi shivamerla1,
Could you test if the new option works well on Nimble Storage? 
Thanks in advance!

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-30 07:27:28 EDT

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:3236

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