[Pacemaker] will online node shoots the standby node when no cluster services?

Andrew Beekhof andrew at beekhof.net
Thu Oct 18 00:24:25 UTC 2012


On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Arnold Krille <arnold at arnoldarts.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:21:24 -0400 Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca> wrote:
>> On 10/17/2012 02:10 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > A simple question for a simple 2-nodes cluster running
>> > pacemaker-1.0.9, corosync-1.2.1 (Debian/Squeeze):
>> >
>> > will the online node stonith the other standby node if I stop the
>> > cluster services on it? (I need to open the chassis)
>> >
>> > thanks!
>> > jf
>>
>> No.
>>
>> The idea behind fencing is to restore a node to a known state. If you
>> gracefully shutdown the cluster stack, then it is able to inform the
>> peer node that it is leaving and will not be offering any clustered
>> services. Thus, it is in a known state and all is fine.
>
> If my understanding is correct, the same applies when you "only" put
> the node in standby?
> At least I couldn't manually fence the node long after I did put it to
> standby...

That doesn't sound right.  How did you try and fence it?

>
> Have fun,
>
> Arnold
>
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