This bug was initially created as a copy of Bug #1936696


The upstream ClusterLabs community is preparing to release version 1.1 of the OCF Resource Agent API standard, which will include a number of new features and clarifications compared to the previous version.

The RHEL High-Availability components will need to support this for RHEL 9.0, and a subset of support could be added as of 8.5 (any of the things mentioned as optional below).

Some key aspects that might require changes (agents refers to all OCF agents whether supplied by resource-agents, pacemaker, or some other package) are listed below. Some of these might warrant (or already have) their own BZs.

* The version number changes to 1.1
** In RHEL 9, agent meta-data should advertise 1.1 support. In RHEL 8, agents that use the old role names should continue to advertise 1.0 support, while agents that don't use role names could (but don't have to) advertise 1.1 support.
** pacemaker should set the OCF_RA_VERSION_MINOR environment variable to 1 instead of 0 in RHEL 9 and optionally 8

* The role names are now "promoted" and "unpromoted" instead of "Master" and "Slave".
** pacemaker should use the new names in help, logs, and output in 9 but not 8. In 9 and optionally 8, all names should be supported in user configurations; the crm_resource --master option should be renamed to --promoted, with the old option accepted for backward compatibility; the crm_master command should be renamed to pcmk_promotion, with the old name symlinked for backward compatibility; and relevant clone notification environment variables (OCF_RESKEY_CRM_meta_notify_master_resource etc.) should be provided with both the old and new names.
** Agents should use the new names in meta-data, help, etc., in 9 but not 8. Agents should use the new crm_resource --promoted option, crm_promotion command, and clone notification variables names in 9 and optionally 8 if supported by pacemaker. If agents parse pacemaker output for role names, they should look for either set of names in 9 and optionally 8.
** pcs should support all names in user input in 9 and optionally 8. The new names should be used in help and output in 9 but not 8. Any commands, options, etc., named after the old names should be renamed to the new ones with the old ones accepted for backward compatibility, in 9 and optionally 8.
** Note: promotion score node attribute names (master-*) are not part of the standard and are not changing at this time. However, anything outside pacemaker should use the crm_master or crm_promotion command instead of dealing with these attributes directly.

* The "unique" agent meta-data field has been deprecated in favor of two new fields, "unique-group" and "reloadable". Agents that support "reloadable" should support the new "reload-params" action.
** Pacemaker should support reloadable if present, otherwise unique if present, and support the reload-params action if present, otherwise reload if present, in 9 and optionally 8.
** Agents should provide both the old and new meta-data names, and the reload-params action if appropriate, in 9 and optionally 8.

* A number of new agent meta-data fields ("required", "deprecated", etc.) give additional hints for user interfaces.
** Agents should provide these in 9 and optionally 8.
** pcs can support these as desired.

* The new OCF_OUTPUT_FORMAT environment variable may be supported to indicate that the agent should output text or XML.
** Pacemaker's crm_resource and stonith_admin commands could set this appropriate to user-specified options before calling agents (at least for validate-all, which is the target use case).
** Agents may support this as desired.

* The OCF_CHECK_LEVEL environment variable may be supported for the validate-all action, to select host-independent or host-specific validation.
** Agents may support this as desired.
** Pacemaker could add an option to crm_resource and stonith_admin for check level when performing validation or monitoring.
** pcs could use the new pacemaker tool options if supported.

* Agent exit statuses have been clarified and expanded.
** Agents may support the new usage as desired. (Pacemaker already does.)

I may have missed some other places changes are needed, but those should be the most important.

Once adopted, the standard will be available at https://github.com/ClusterLabs/OCF-spec/tree/master/ra/1.1

This has been filed against 8.5 in case a subset will be implemented there, but may be cloned for or reassigned to 9.0, and some items could get their own bzs if separate tracking is desired