[Pacemaker] Remove a "ghost" node

Andrew Beekhof andrew at beekhof.net
Thu Nov 14 23:14:00 UTC 2013


On 14 Nov 2013, at 2:55 pm, Sean Lutner <sean at rentul.net> wrote:

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> On Nov 13, 2013, at 10:51 PM, Andrew Beekhof <andrew at beekhof.net> wrote:
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>> On 14 Nov 2013, at 1:12 pm, Sean Lutner <sean at rentul.net> wrote:
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>>> On Nov 10, 2013, at 8:03 PM, Sean Lutner <sean at rentul.net> wrote:
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>>>> On Nov 10, 2013, at 7:54 PM, Andrew Beekhof <andrew at beekhof.net> wrote:
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>>>>> On 11 Nov 2013, at 11:44 am, Sean Lutner <sean at rentul.net> wrote:
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>>>>>> On Nov 10, 2013, at 6:27 PM, Andrew Beekhof <andrew at beekhof.net> wrote:
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>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 8 Nov 2013, at 12:59 pm, Sean Lutner <sean at rentul.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
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>>>>>>>> On Nov 7, 2013, at 8:34 PM, Andrew Beekhof <andrew at beekhof.net> wrote:
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>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On 8 Nov 2013, at 4:45 am, Sean Lutner <sean at rentul.net> wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>> I have a confusing situation that I'm hoping to get help with. Last night after configuring STONITH on my two node cluster, I suddenly have a "ghost" node in my cluster. I'm looking to understand the best way to remove this node from the config.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I'm using the fence_ec2 device for for STONITH. I dropped the script on each node, registered the device with stonith_admin -R -a fence_ec2 and confirmed the registration with both
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> # stonith_admin -I
>>>>>>>>>> # pcs stonith list
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I then configured STONITH per the Clusters from Scratch doc
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> http://clusterlabs.org/doc/en-US/Pacemaker/1.1-pcs/html/Clusters_from_Scratch/_example.html
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Here are my commands:
>>>>>>>>>> # pcs cluster cib stonith_cfg
>>>>>>>>>> # pcs -f stonith_cfg stonith create ec2-fencing fence_ec2 ec2-home="/opt/ec2-api-tools" pcmk_host_check="static-list" pcmk_host_list="ip-10-50-3-122 ip-10-50-3-251" op monitor interval="300s" timeout="150s" op start start-delay="30s" interval="0"
>>>>>>>>>> # pcs -f stonith_cfg stonith
>>>>>>>>>> # pcs -f stonith_cfg property set stonith-enabled=true
>>>>>>>>>> # pcs -f stonith_cfg property
>>>>>>>>>> # pcs cluster push cib stonith_cfg
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> After that I saw that STONITH appears to be functioning but a new node listed in pcs status output:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Do the EC2 instances have fixed IPs?
>>>>>>>>> I didn't have much luck with EC2 because every time they came back up it was with a new name/address which confused corosync and created situations like this.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> The IPs persist across reboots as far as I can tell. I thought the problem was due to stonith being enabled but not working so I removed the stonith_id and disabled stonith. After that I restarted pacemaker and cman on both nodes and things started as expected but the ghost node it still there. 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Someone else working on the cluster exported the CIB, removed the node and then imported the CIB. They used this process http://clusterlabs.org/doc/en-US/Pacemaker/1.0/html/Pacemaker_Explained/s-config-updates.html
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Even after that, the ghost node is still there? Would pcs cluster cib > /tmp/cib-temp.xml and then pcs cluster push cib /tmp/cib-temp.xml after editing the node out of the config?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> No. If its coming back then pacemaker is holding it in one of its internal caches.
>>>>>>> The only way to clear it out in your version is to restart pacemaker on the DC.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Actually... are you sure someone didn't just slip while editing cluster.conf?  [...].1251 does not look like a valid IP :)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> In the end this fixed it
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> # pcs cluster cib > /tmp/cib-tmp.xml
>>>>>> # vi /tmp/cib-tmp.xml # remove bad node
>>>>>> # pcs cluster push cib /tmp/cib-tmp.xml
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Followed by restaring pacemaker and cman on both nodes. The ghost node disappeared, so it was cached as you mentioned.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I also tracked the bad IP down to bad non-printing characters in the initial command line while configuring the fence_ec2 stonith device. I'd put the command together from the github README and some mailing list posts and laid it out in an external editor. Go me. :)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Version: 1.1.8-7.el6-394e906
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> There is now an update to 1.1.10 available for 6.4, that _may_ help in the future.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> That's my next task. I believe I'm hitting the failure-timeout not clearing failcount bug and want to upgrade to 1.1.10. Is it safe to yum update pacemaker after stopping the cluster? I see there is also an updated pcs in CentOS 6.4, should I update that as well?
>>>>> 
>>>>> yes and yes
>>>>> 
>>>>> you might want to check if you're using any OCF resource agents that didn't make it into the first supported release though.
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://blog.clusterlabs.org/blog/2013/pacemaker-and-rhel-6-dot-4/
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks, I'll give that a read. All the resource agents are custom so I'm thinking I'm okay (I'll back them up before upgrading). 
>>>> 
>>>> One last question related to the fence_ec2 script. Should crm_mon -VW show it running on both nodes or just one?
>>> 
>>> I just went through the upgrade to pacemaker 1.1.10 and pcs. After running the yum update for those I ran a crm_verify and I'm seeing errors related to my order and colocation constraints. Did the behavior of these change from 1.1.8 to 1.1.10?
>>> 
>>> # crm_verify -L -V
>>> error: unpack_order_template:        Invalid constraint 'order-ClusterEIP_54.215.143.166-Varnish-mandatory': No resource or template named 'Varnish'
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>> Is that true?
> 
> No, it's not. The resource exists and the script for the resource exists.
> 
> I rolled back to 1.1.8 and the cluster started up without issue.

Can you send us your config? (cibadmin -Ql)

Is Varnish in a group or cloned?  That might also explain things.

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>>> error: unpack_order_template:        Invalid constraint 'order-Varnish-Varnishlog-mandatory': No resource or template named 'Varnish'
>>> error: unpack_order_template:        Invalid constraint 'order-Varnishlog-Varnishncsa-mandatory': No resource or template named 'Varnishlog'
>>> error: unpack_colocation_template:   Invalid constraint 'colocation-Varnish-ClusterEIP_54.215.143.166-INFINITY': No resource or template named 'Varnish'
>>> error: unpack_colocation_template:   Invalid constraint 'colocation-Varnishlog-Varnish-INFINITY': No resource or template named 'Varnishlog'
>>> error: unpack_colocation_template:   Invalid constraint 'colocation-Varnishncsa-Varnishlog-INFINITY': No resource or template named 'Varnishncsa'
>>> Errors found during check: config not valid
>>> 
>>> The cluster doesn't start. I'd prefer to figure out how to fix this rather than roll back to 1.1.8. Any help is appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I may have to go back to the drawing board on a fencing device for the nodes. Are there any other recommendations for a cluster on EC2 nodes?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thanks very much
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> # pcs status
>>>>>>>>>> Last updated: Thu Nov  7 17:41:21 2013
>>>>>>>>>> Last change: Thu Nov  7 04:29:06 2013 via cibadmin on ip-10-50-3-122
>>>>>>>>>> Stack: cman
>>>>>>>>>> Current DC: ip-10-50-3-122 - partition with quorum
>>>>>>>>>> Version: 1.1.8-7.el6-394e906
>>>>>>>>>> 3 Nodes configured, unknown expected votes
>>>>>>>>>> 11 Resources configured.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Node ip-10-50-3-1251: UNCLEAN (offline)
>>>>>>>>>> Online: [ ip-10-50-3-122 ip-10-50-3-251 ]
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Full list of resources:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> ClusterEIP_54.215.143.166      (ocf::pacemaker:EIP):   Started ip-10-50-3-122
>>>>>>>>>> Clone Set: EIP-AND-VARNISH-clone [EIP-AND-VARNISH]
>>>>>>>>>> Started: [ ip-10-50-3-122 ip-10-50-3-251 ]
>>>>>>>>>> Stopped: [ EIP-AND-VARNISH:2 ]
>>>>>>>>>> ec2-fencing    (stonith:fence_ec2):    Stopped 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I have no idea where the node that is marked UNCLEAN came from, though it's a clear typo is a proper cluster node.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> The only command I ran with the bad node ID was:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> # crm_resource --resource ClusterEIP_54.215.143.166 --cleanup --node ip-10-50-3-1251
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Is there any possible way that could have caused the the node to be added?
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I tried running pcs cluster node remove ip-10-50-3-1251 but since there is no node and thus no pcsd that failed. Is there a way I can safely remove this ghost node from the cluster? I can provide logs from pacemaker or corosync as needed.
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