[Pacemaker] Temporarily disabling the cluster

Lars Marowsky-Bree lmb at suse.de
Tue Sep 9 20:02:36 UTC 2008


On 2008-09-09T21:45:30, Andrew Beekhof <beekhof at gmail.com> wrote:

>>>>> Basically:
>>>>>
>>>>> "Enable maintenance mode" means "is_managed == false" for everything
								^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>> (overrides individual resource settings?), plus disabling all
>>>>> monitors.
>>>>>
>>>>> "Disabling maintenance mode (going back to production" - probe
>>>>> everything everywhere again(?), reenable monitors, resume normal
>>>>> "is_managed" behaviour.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is that about it?
>>>>
>>>> The problem is what should happen when a resource is "suspended" while
>>>> pacemaker's about to relocate it due to some other events ?
>>>
>>> In this mode, pacemaker would never move a resource.
>>
>> Yes. And then all resources colocated/ordered with that are "pinned"
>> as well. So effectively, we have the whole cluster "half-suspended" as
>> well.
>>
>> This leads me to think that "suspend" a specific resource is not a clean 
>> idea.
>
> I agree. I think we're talking about a global state here.

Works for me ;-)


Regards,
    Lars

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