[Pacemaker] Using Cluster Test Suite (CTS) with "debug: on" in corosync.conf failed

[Timo Schäpe]

Am 17.04.2012 03:12, schrieb Andrew Beekhof:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Timo Schäpe <schaepe at dfn-cert.de> wrote:
>> Am 10.04.2012 23:43, schrieb Andrew Beekhof:
>>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Timo Schäpe <schaepe at dfn-cert.de> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> for whom it may interest, here's something that cost me a whole day of work:
>>>>
>>>> I used CTS to test my cluster configuration and it worked fine. For
>>>> debugging a resource agent I switched on the debug output in corosync.conf:
>>>>
>>>> logging {
>>>>        [...]
>>>>        debug: on
>>>>        [...]
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> After I fixed the bug, I forgot to switch debug output off. This caused
>>>> most of the CTS tests to fail with this warning:
>>>>
>>>> CTS: Warn: Startup pattern not found: myhost crmd:.*The local CRM is
>>>> operational
>>>>
>>>> After I switched debug output off, the CTS worked fine as before.
>>>
>>> We've since added a BadNews pattern that looks for syslog messages
>>> being dropped/throttled.
>>>
>>> How was your experience with CTS otherwise?
>>> Periodically I try to improve the usability so that eventually
>>> non-developers can use it, it would be interesting to hear how we're
>>> doing.
>>
>> It was easy for me to work with CTS. I read about the basics of CTS in
>> the book of Michael Schwartzkopff (Clusterbau). Some deeper information
>> about the configuration I got from the README and that was enough to
>> start some tests.
>>
>> What I missed is a short explanation of the tests and the meaning of
>> their failures. For example my cluster fails completly at the
>> ResourceRecover and Reattach tests. But unfortunately I only know the
>> meaning of the ResourceRecover test, because there is an explanation in
>> the Schwartzkopff book. Maybe there is an online resource that I had
>> overlooked till now.
> 
> There is http://www.clusterlabs.org/wiki/ReleaseTesting#List_of_Automated_Test_Cases
> But its all but impossible to describe the failures as that would be a
> list of every possible bug - basically there shouldn't be any
> failures.

Yes, thank you. That's what I want :).

>> And I am not sure, how I can test a cluster with STONITH resources with
>> the CTS. Should I use the stonith-ssh?
> 
> As Dejan mentioned, you can (and should) use whichever stonith device
> you would normally define.
> Are you having CTS create a configuration or using the one you plan to
> use in production?

Yep, thanks to Dejan. I used the configuration which I want to use in
production.

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