[Pacemaker] 2-node cluster doesn't move resources away from a failed node

Sat Jul 7 18:12:40 EDT 2012

On 07/05/2012 04:12 PM, David Guyot wrote:
> Hello, everybody.
> 
> As the title suggests, I'm configuring a 2-node cluster but I've got a
> strange issue here : when I put a node in standby mode, using "crm node
> standby", its resources are correctly moved to the second node, and stay
> there even if the first is back on-line, which I assume is the preferred
> behavior (preferred by the designers of such systems) to avoid having
> resources on a potentially unstable node. Nevertheless, when I simulate
> failure of the node which run resources by "/etc/init.d/corosync stop",
> the other node correctly fence the failed node by electrically resetting
> it, but it doesn't mean that it will mount resources on himself; rather,
> it waits the failed node to be back on-line, and then re-negotiates
> resource placement, which inevitably leads to the failed node restarting
> the resources, which I suppose is a consequence of the resource
> stickiness still recorded by the intact node : because this node still
> assume that resources are running on the failed node, it assumes that
> resources prefer to stay on the first node, even if it has failed.
> 
> When the first node, Vindemiatrix, has shuts down Corosync, the second,
> Malastare, reports this :
> 
> root at Malastare:/home/david# crm_mon --one-shot -VrA
> ============
> Last updated: Thu Jul  5 15:27:01 2012
> Last change: Thu Jul  5 15:26:37 2012 via cibadmin on Malastare
> Stack: openais
> Current DC: Malastare - partition WITHOUT quorum
> Version: 1.1.7-ee0730e13d124c3d58f00016c3376a1de5323cff
> 2 Nodes configured, 2 expected votes
> 17 Resources configured.
> ============
> 
> Node Vindemiatrix: UNCLEAN (offline)

Pacemaker thinks fencing was not successful and will not recover
resources until STONITH was successful ... or the node returns an it is
possible to probe resource states

> Online: [ Malastare ]
> 
> Full list of resources:
> 
>  soapi-fencing-malastare    (stonith:external/ovh):    Started Vindemiatrix
>  soapi-fencing-vindemiatrix    (stonith:external/ovh):    Started Malastare
>  Master/Slave Set: ms_drbd_svn [drbd_svn]
>      Masters: [ Vindemiatrix ]
>      Slaves: [ Malastare ]
>  Master/Slave Set: ms_drbd_pgsql [drbd_pgsql]
>      Masters: [ Vindemiatrix ]
>      Slaves: [ Malastare ]
>  Master/Slave Set: ms_drbd_backupvi [drbd_backupvi]
>      Masters: [ Vindemiatrix ]
>      Slaves: [ Malastare ]
>  Master/Slave Set: ms_drbd_www [drbd_www]
>      Masters: [ Vindemiatrix ]
>      Slaves: [ Malastare ]
>  fs_www    (ocf::heartbeat:Filesystem):    Started Vindemiatrix
>  fs_pgsql    (ocf::heartbeat:Filesystem):    Started Vindemiatrix
>  fs_svn    (ocf::heartbeat:Filesystem):    Started Vindemiatrix
>  fs_backupvi    (ocf::heartbeat:Filesystem):    Started Vindemiatrix
>  VirtualIP    (ocf::heartbeat:IPaddr2):    Started Vindemiatrix
>  OVHvIP    (ocf::pacemaker:OVHvIP):    Started Vindemiatrix
>  ProFTPd    (ocf::heartbeat:proftpd):    Started Vindemiatrix
> 
> Node Attributes:
> * Node Malastare:
>     + master-drbd_backupvi:0              : 10000    
>     + master-drbd_pgsql:0                 : 10000    
>     + master-drbd_svn:0                   : 10000    
>     + master-drbd_www:0                   : 10000    
> 
> As you can see, the node failure is detected. This state leads to
> attached log file.
> 
> Note that both ocf::pacemaker:OVHvIP and stonith:external/ovh are custom
> resources which uses my server provider's SOAP API to provide intended
> services. The STONITH agent does nothing but returning exit status 0
> when start, stop, on or off actions are required, but returns the 2
> nodes names when hostlist or gethosts actions are required and, when
> reset action is required, effectively resets faulting node using the
> provider API. As this API doesn't provide reliable mean to know the
> exact moment of resetting, the STONITH agent pings the faulting node
> every 5 seconds until ping fails, then forks a process which pings the
> faulting node every 5 seconds until it answers, then, due to external
> VPN being not yet installed by the provider, I'm forced to emulate it
> with OpenVPN (which seems to be unable to re-establish a connection lost
> minutes ago, leading to a dual brain situation), the STONITH agent
> restarts OpenVPN to re-establish the connection, then restarts Corosync
> and Pacemaker.
> 
> Aside from the VPN issue, of which I'm fully aware of performance and
> stability issues, I thought that Pacemaker would, as soon as the STONITH
> agent returns exit status 0, start the resources on the remaining node,
> but it doesn't. Instead, it seems that the STONITH reset action waits
> too long to report a successful reset, delay which reaches some internal
> timeout, which in turn leads Pacemaker to assume that STONITH agent
> failed, therefore, while eternally trying to reset the node (which only
> leads to the API issuing an error because the last reset request was
> less than 5 minutes ago, something forbidden) stopping actions without
> restarting resources on the remaining node. I tried to search the
> Internet to this parameter, but the only related thing I found is this
> page
> http://lists.linux-ha.org/pipermail/linux-ha/2010-March/039761.html, a
> Linux-HA mailing list archive, which mentions a stonith-timeout
> property, but I've parsed Pacemaker documentation without finding any
> occurrence, and I got an error when I tried to get its value :

man stonithd

> 
> root at Vindemiatrix:/home/david# crm_attribute --name stonith-timeout --query
> scope=crm_config  name=stonith-timeout value=(null)
> Error performing operation: The object/attribute does not exist

stonith-timeout defaults to 60s ... crm configure property
stonith-timeout=XY .... to increase it cluster-wide... or you can add an
individual value as resource attribute to your stonith resources.

Regards,
Andreas

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> 
> So what did I miss? Do I must use this property which is not documented
> nor present in the documentation? Or rewrite my STONITH agent to return
> exit status 0 as soon as the API correctly considered the reset request
> (contrary to what Linux-HA http://linux-ha.org/wiki/STONITH precise to
> be necessary)? Or is there something else I missed?
> 
> Thank you now for having read this whole mail, and in advance for your help.
> 
> Kind regards.
> 
> 
> 
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