[Pacemaker] Pacemaker fails to switch on or off PDU sockets with fence_wti

Andrew Beekhof andrew at beekhof.net
Thu Jun 20 10:23:19 UTC 2013


On 20/06/2013, at 6:51 PM, Thibaut Pouzet <thibaut.pouzet at lyra-network.com> wrote:

> Le 19/06/2013 23:57, Andrew Beekhof a écrit :
>> On 20/06/2013, at 1:57 AM, Thibaut Pouzet <thibaut.pouzet at lyra-network.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I am trying to configure fencing on a test platform with two nodes under corosync+cman+pacemaker on CentOS 6.4. Both nodes have a double power supply from a WTI NPS-8HD16-3. IPMI fencing works like a charm, however I cannot get the WTI fencing to work.
>>> 
>>> The problem is that the parameter  action="" seems to be ignored by pacemaker.
>>> * This is the primitive :
>>> primitive wti_fence02_port2_off stonith:fence_wti \
>>>        params ipaddr="" action="off" pcmk_host_check="none" port="A2" pcmk_host_check="static-list" pcmk_host_list="fence02.lyra-network.com" login="" passwd="" shell_timeout="20" login_timeout="20"
>>> 
>>> * These are the corresponding log lines :
>>> Jun 19 16:56:45 fence01 stonith-ng[19266]:   notice: log_operation: Operation 'reboot' [19953] (call 0 from crmd.19268) for host 'fence02.lyra-network.com' with device 'wti_fence02_port2_off' returned: 0 (OK)
>>> Jun 19 16:56:45 fence01 stonith-ng[19266]:   notice: process_remote_stonith_exec: Call to wti_fence02_port2_off for fence02.lyra-network.com on behalf of crmd.19268 at fence01.lyra-network.com: passed (0)
>>> 
>>> * These are the version used :
>>> pacemaker-1.1.8-7.el6.x86_64
>>> corosync-1.4.1-15.el6.x86_64
>>> cman-3.0.12.1-49.el6.x86_64
>>> fence-agents-3.1.5-25.el6_4.2.x86_64
>>> 
>>> The same thing happens with "on" actions.
>>> 
>>> When I run fence_wti from command line, it works perfectly fine with ON or OFF actions ! I feel there is a workaround with something like pcmk_reboot_action="/ON", but I don't understand how to use this...
>>> 
>>> (FYI, I'm using fencing topology like this :
>>> fencing_topology \
>>>        fence01.lyra-network.com: wti_fence01_port1_off,wti_fence01_port5_off,wti_fence01_port5_on,wti_fence01_port1_on ipmi_fence01 \
>>>        fence02.lyra-network.com: wti_fence02_port2_off,wti_fence02_port6_off,wti_fence02_port6_on,wti_fence02_port2_on ipmi_fence02 )
>>> 
>>> What is wrong here ?
>> I believe you're trying to use the per-agent pcmk_reboot_action option (man stonithd)
>> But you might be better off with the global stonith-action option (man pengine)
>> 
> 
> Hum, I think I've not been clear enough on the initial e-mail. The usage of "pcmk_reboot_action" or "stonith-action" is not the root of my problem. The initial problem is that when I configure action="off"

My point would be that action=off is not the correct way to configure what you're trying to do.

> with a stonith primitive,  when this primitive is called, the actual action that is launched through fence_wti is "reboot".
> 
> Therefore, when a node needs to be fenced, instead of having on the PDU :
> Port 2 OFF -> Port 6 OFF -> Port 6 ON -> Port 2 ON
> I have :
> Port 2 Reboot -> Port 6 Reboot -> Port 6 Reboot -> Port 2 Reboot
> 
> All actions are successful, pacemaker changes the fenced node's status from "UNCLEAN" to "OFFLINE", while the node has not been rebooted at all.
> 
> -- 
> Thibaut Pouzet
> Lyra Network
> Ingénieur Système et Réseau
> www.lyra-network.com
> 
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