[ClusterLabs] Passing and binding to virtual IP in my service

[Kristoffer Grönlund]

Nikhil Utane <nikhil.subscribed at gmail.com> writes:

> Of course, one way is to pass the same virtual IP configuration to my
> resource agent:
> "<nvpair id="ClusterIP-instance_attributes-ip" name="ip"
> value="10.206.1.253"/>"
> But this will be duplicate information and error-prone.
> There ought to be a better way. :)
>

Hi,

You can use attribute references to avoid having to configure the same
value twice. It is documented here for the crmsh syntax:

http://crmsh.github.io/man/#topics_Features_AttributeReferences

Cheers,
Kristoffer

> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Nikhil Utane <nikhil.subscribed at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have my cluster up and running just fine. I have a dummy service that
>> sends UDP packets out to another host.
>>
>>  Resource Group: MyGroup
>>      ClusterIP  (ocf::heartbeat:IPaddr2):       Started node1
>>      UDPSend    (ocf::nikhil:UDPSend):  Started node1
>>
>> If I ping to the virtual IP from outside, the response goes via virtual IP.
>> But if I initiate ping from node1, then it takes the actual (non-virtual
>> IP). This is expected since I am not binding to the vip. (ping -I vip works
>> fine).
>> So my question is, how to pass the virtual IP to my UDPSend OCF agent so
>> that it can then bind to the vip? This will ensure that all messages
>> initiated by my UDPSend goes from vip.
>>
>> Out of curiosity, where is this virtual IP stored in the kernel?
>> I expected to see a secondary interface ( for e.g. eth0:1) with the vip
>> but it isn't there.
>>
>> -Thanks
>> Nikhil
>>
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