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Bug 501056

Summary: Release of fence_vmware fencing agent in RHEL5.3 did not include documentation of supported and unsupported use-cases
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Perry Myers <pmyers>
Component: cmanAssignee: Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Cluster QE <mspqa-list>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 5.3CC: cluster-maint, degts, djansa, edamato, ghelleks, jfriesse, rlerch
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: 5.4   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Cause: VMware fence agent was released in RHEL5.3 but information was not given at that time about what use-cases for fence-vmware would be supported. Consequence: Many customers have questions about what usage of fence_vmware is supported and what usage is not supported. Fix: The following kbase article provides information about how the fence_vmware agent can be used with Cluster Suite in a supported fashion. http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-17345 Result: This kbase article should clear up confusion about VMware support for Cluster Suite.
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Last Closed: 2009-06-09 14:11:57 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Blocks: 513501    

Description Perry Myers 2009-05-15 18:02:47 UTC
Description of problem:
fence_vmware was released in RHEL5.3 but no release notes were attached to the package enumerating what the supported/unsupported use cases are.

No code changes for fence_vmware are actually slated for RHEL5.4 release but this bug will be used to make sure that a release note gets created referencing a knowledge base article to describe the use cases.

Comment 1 Perry Myers 2009-05-15 18:03:58 UTC
Release note added. If any revisions are required, please set the 
"requires_release_notes" flag to "?" and edit the "Release Notes" field accordingly.
All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.

New Contents:
*** DRAFT ***

Placeholder for a link to a knowledge base article that will describe the supported use cases for fence_vmware

*** DRAFT ***

Comment 5 Perry Myers 2009-06-16 16:08:31 UTC
Release note updated. If any revisions are required, please set the 
"requires_release_notes"  flag to "?" and edit the "Release Notes" field accordingly.
All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.

Diffed Contents:
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 *** DRAFT ***
+*** The kbase url may change when this is moved from kbase scratch area to proper kbase article location ***
 
-Placeholder for a link to a knowledge base article that will describe the supported use cases for fence_vmware
+Cause: VMware fence agent was released in RHEL5.3 but information was not given at that time about what use-cases for fence-vmware would be supported.
 
-*** DRAFT ***+Consequence: Many customers have questions about what usage of fence_vmware is supported and what usage is not supported.
+
+Fix: The following kbase article provides information about how the fence_vmware agent can be used with Cluster Suite in a supported fashion.
+http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-17342
+
+Result: This kbase article should clear up confusion about VMware support for Cluster Suite.

Comment 7 Subhendu Ghosh 2009-06-16 16:30:52 UTC
Release note updated. If any revisions are required, please set the 
"requires_release_notes"  flag to "?" and edit the "Release Notes" field accordingly.
All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.

Diffed Contents:
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
-*** DRAFT ***
-*** The kbase url may change when this is moved from kbase scratch area to proper kbase article location ***
-
 Cause: VMware fence agent was released in RHEL5.3 but information was not given at that time about what use-cases for fence-vmware would be supported.
 
 Consequence: Many customers have questions about what usage of fence_vmware is supported and what usage is not supported.
 
 Fix: The following kbase article provides information about how the fence_vmware agent can be used with Cluster Suite in a supported fashion.
-http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-17342
+http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-17345
 
 Result: This kbase article should clear up confusion about VMware support for Cluster Suite.