[Pacemaker] stonith-ing a host in standby mode

Andrew Beekhof beekhof at gmail.com
Wed Nov 19 14:54:51 UTC 2008


On Nov 19, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Raoul Bhatia [IPAX] wrote:

> hi,
>
> is it reasonable to stonith a host which is/was currently in standby
> mode?

depends what it did - but yes, it could happen

>
>
> i today tried to upgrade from pacemaker 1.0.0 to 1.0.1:
>
> wc01: v1.0.0
> wc02: v1.0.0, dc
> wc01: put into standby
> wc01: upgrade to v1.0.1 & restart heartbeat a couple of times
>      note: maybe heartbeat kind of hung during this process!
>
> i then saw wc02 (dc) shoot wc01.
>
> i do not think that it is appropriate to shoot a node which is/was
> last seen in standby mode. or maybe i am misinterpreting the intention
> of crm_standby?

probably :-)
it just means "can't run resources"

but if any resource there failed to stop... it should definitely be  
shot.




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