From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4 Description of problem: If a blade is not present (i.e. removed for maintenance), the fence_bladecenter cannot check the state as it is reported empty. I think it is something simple to fix for those versed in perl. Normally the fence only runs against a blade that is present. If the blade is removed while running, you run into this issue. My case below. Blade #3 is a good node. Blade #2 was removed. The fence does not work with the blade removed. system> env -T system:blade[3] OK system:blade[3]> power -state On system:blade[3]> env -T system:blade[2] The target bay is empty. system:blade[3]> env -T system:blade[1] OK system:blade[1]> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Bring up cluster on two nodes 2. Physically remove blade running the service 3. Fence fails shown in log Actual Results: The clustered service does not failover to standby node Expected Results: Clustered service should failover. Fence should detect that fenced node is no longer present in Blade_Center instead of hanging Additional info: Got this from James Parsons - RHCS Mailing list.. I believe this is what you want to happen...if state cannot be checked, fenced keeps trying. How could you determine it was safe to stop without persisting some value like the number of fence tries, and trying to reason out whether it was safe to stop? This will not happen if you remove the blade from the cluster before physically removing it. It is a snap to do this with one of the UIs, if you are not prejudiced against UIs :). Also, removing the node from cluster membership before jerking it out of the rack tells rgmanager to move any services off of it - rather than having to depend on heartbeat failure to make this happen. That said, if the blade catches fire and a cage IT guy notices and jerks it quick, (using his IT Oven Mitt, of course) it is silly for fenced to keep incessantly trying when the thing no longer even exists. Perhaps the correct solution would be to have the fence_bladecenter report success if the bladecenter admin unit reports that 'no status is available' for a particular blade - obviously if the thing is not there, it should be safe to say it is fenced :) If this addresses your situation (I think it does), now would be a REALLY good time to file a ticket requesting this behavior - like today! I'll post a fixed version to the ticket when it is ready. Thanks to Lon for discussing this with me...;) Regards, -Jim
Created attachment 161641 [details] Modified version of fence_bladecenter
I ran into the same problem, and modified the fence_bladecenter script so that: - Turning a blade off will report success if the blade is absent - Rebooting a blade will report success if the blade is absent Cluster Suite seems to only use the "reboot"-command. The modified script is attached.
Patch is in upstream, now: option --missing-as-off http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cluster.git?p=fence-agents.git;a=commit;h=460609f46485cd39f1ea158a00e1ca8fa3dd809f
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The previous fix worked for me 2007-08-16 from Cato. We are unable to run any BETA versions of software.
Yet again, manpage for fence_agent was not properly updated, so this change is undocumented feature.
(In reply to comment #7) > Yet again, manpage for fence_agent was not properly updated, so this change is > undocumented feature. Jaroslav, can we mark this bug as VERIFIED and file a new bug against the man page issue? I don't want to hold up RHEL5.5 release due to a man page deficiency but do want to track it so that we get it fixed for the next release. Thanks
Moving manpages request to bug 573990 and marking this as verified.
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