[Pacemaker] Master-Slave role stickiness

brook davis brook.davis at nimboxx.com
Wed Jan 21 20:06:47 UTC 2015


Hi,

I've got a master-slave resource and I'd like to achieve the following 
behavior with it:

* Only ever run (as master or slave) on 2 specific nodes (out of N 
possible nodes).  These nodes are predetermined and are specified at 
resource creation time.
* Prefer one specific node (of the 2 selected for running the resource) 
for starting in the Master role.
* Upon failover event, promote the secondary node to master.
* Do not re-promote the failed node back to master, should it come back 
online.

The last requirement is the one I'm currently struggling with.  I can 
force the resource to run on only the 2 nodes I want (out of 3 possible 
nodes), but I can't get it to "stick" on the secondary node as master 
after a failover and recovery.   That is, when I take the original 
master offline, the resource promotes correctly on the secondary, but if 
I bring the origin node back online, the resource is demoted on the 
secondary and promotes back to master on the origin.   I'd like to avoid 
that last bit.

Here's the relevant bits of my CRM configuration:

primitive NIMHA-01 ocf:heartbeat:nimha \
     op start interval="0" timeout="60s" \
     op monitor interval="30s" role="Master" \
     op stop interval="0" timeout="60s" \
     op monitor interval="45s" role="Slave" \
ms NIMMS-01 NIMHA-01 \
     meta master-max="1" master-node-max="1" clone-max="2" 
clone-node-max="1" notify="true" target-role="Started" is-managed="true"
location prefer-elmy-inf NIMMS-01 5: elmyra
location prefer-elmyra-ms NIMMS-01 \
     rule $id="prefer-elmyra-rule" $role="Master" 10: #uname eq elmyra
location prefer-pres-inf NIMMS-01 5: president
location prefer-president-ms NIMMS-01 \
     rule $id="prefer-president-rule" $role="Master" 5: #uname eq president
property $id="cib-bootstrap-options" \
     dc-version="1.1.10-42f2063" \
     cluster-infrastructure="corosync" \
     stonith-enabled="false" \
     no-quorum-policy="ignore" \
     last-lrm-refresh="1421798334" \
     default-resource-stickiness="200" \
     symmetric-cluster="false"


I've set symmetric-cluster="false" to achieve an "opt-in" behavior, per 
the corosync docs.  From my understanding, these location constraints 
should direct the resource to be able to run on the two nodes, 
preferring 'elmyra' initially as Master.  My question then becomes, is 
there a way to apply the stickiness to the Master role ??   I've tried 
adding explicit stickiness settings (high numbers and INF) to the 
default-resource-stickiness, the actual "ms" resource, and the 
primitive, all to no avail.

Anyone have any ideas on how to achieve stickiness on the master role in 
such a configuration ?

Thanks for any and all help in advance,

brook

ps.  please ignore/forgive the no-quorum-policy and stonith-enabled 
settings in my configuration...  I know it's bad and not best practice.  
I don't think it should affect the answer to the above question, though, 
based on my understanding of the system.




More information about the Pacemaker mailing list