[ClusterLabs] SLES12 SP4: update_cib_stonith_devices_v2 nonsense "Watchdog will be used via SBD if fencing is required"

Andrei Borzenkov arvidjaar at gmail.com
Wed Oct 23 08:53:16 EDT 2019


23.10.2019 13:35, Ulrich Windl пишет:
> Hi!
> 
> In SLES12 SP4 I'm kind of annoyed due to repeating messages "unpack_config:    Watchdog will be used via SBD if fencing is required".
> 
> While examining another problem, I found this sequence:
> * Some unrelated resource was moved (migrated)
> * stonith-ng:     info: update_cib_stonith_devices_v2:    Updating device list from the cib: create constraints
> 
> (at that point I'm expecting that there was NO update related to SBD devices)
> 
> * stonith-ng:     info: cib_devices_update:       Updating devices to version 2.35.0
> * stonith-ng:   notice: unpack_config:    Watchdog will be used via SBD if fencing is required
> * cib:     info: cib_file_write_with_digest:       Wrote version 2.35.0 of the CIB to disk (digest: 8e3625f4ef74b6fe6c6429757023b7e9)
> 
> I mean: I know that SBD will use the watchdog for fencing if everything else fails, but why is this message logged so many times?
> 

This message is also misleading. Pacemaker will actually use watchdog
self-fencing only if stonith-watchdog-timeout is not zero. And zero is
default.



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