[ClusterLabs] problems with a CentOS7 SBD cluster

Marcin Dulak marcin.dulak at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 05:24:39 EDT 2016


On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Andrew Beekhof <abeekhof at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 6:05 AM, Marcin Dulak <marcin.dulak at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to get familiar with STONITH Block Devices (SBD) on a 3-node
> > CentOS7 built in VirtualBox.
> > The complete setup is available at
> > https://github.com/marcindulak/vagrant-sbd-tutorial-centos7.git
> > so hopefully with some help I'll be able to make it work.
> >
> > Question 1:
> > The shared device /dev/sbd1 is the VirtualBox's "shareable hard disk"
> > https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch05.html#hdimagewrites
> > will SBD fencing work with that type of storage?
>
> unknown
>
> >
> > I start the cluster using vagrant_1.8.1 and virtualbox-4.3 with:
> > $ vagrant up  # takes ~15 minutes
> >
> > The setup brings up the nodes, installs the necessary packages, and
> prepares
> > for the configuration of the pcs cluster.
> > You can see which scripts the nodes execute at the bottom of the
> > Vagrantfile.
> > While there is 'yum -y install sbd' on CentOS7 the fence_sbd agent has
> not
> > been packaged yet.
>
> you're not supposed to use it
>
> > Therefore I rebuild Fedora 24 package using the latest
> > https://github.com/ClusterLabs/fence-agents/archive/v4.0.22.tar.gz
> > plus the update to the fence_sbd from
> > https://github.com/ClusterLabs/fence-agents/pull/73
> >
> > The configuration is inspired by
> > https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7009485 and
> >
> https://www.suse.com/documentation/sle-ha-12/book_sleha/data/sec_ha_storage_protect_fencing.html
> >
> > Question 2:
> > After reading http://blog.clusterlabs.org/blog/2015/sbd-fun-and-profit I
> > expect with just one stonith resource configured
>
> there shouldn't be any stonith resources configured
>

It's a test setup. Found
https://www.suse.com/documentation/sle-ha-12/book_sleha/data/sec_ha_storage_protect_fencing.html

crm configure
property stonith-enabled="true"
property stonith-timeout="40s"
primitive stonith_sbd stonith:external/sbd op start interval="0"
timeout="15" start-delay="10"
commit
quit

and trying to configure CentOS7 similarly.


>
> > a node will be fenced when I stop pacemaker and corosync `pcs cluster
> stop
> > node-1` or just `stonith_admin -F node-1`, but this is not the case.
> >
> > As can be seen below from uptime, the node-1 is not shutdown by `pcs
> cluster
> > stop node-1` executed on itself.
> > I found some discussions on users at clusterlabs.org about whether a node
> > running SBD resource can fence itself,
> > but the conclusion was not clear to me.
>
> on RHEL and derivatives it can ONLY fence itself. the disk based
> posion pill isn't supported yet
>

once it's supported on RHEL I'll be ready :)

>
> >
> > Question 3:
> > Neither node-1 is fenced by `stonith_admin -F node-1` executed on node-2,
> > despite the fact
> > /var/log/messages on node-2 (the one currently running MyStonith)
> reporting:
> > ...
> > notice: Operation 'off' [3309] (call 2 from stonith_admin.3288) for host
> > 'node-1' with device 'MyStonith' returned: 0 (OK)
> > ...
> > What is happening here?
>
> have you tried looking at the sbd logs?
> is the watchdog device functioning correctly?
>
>
it turned out (suggested here
http://clusterlabs.org/pipermail/users/2016-June/003355.html) that the
reason for node-1 not being fenced by `stonith_admin -F node-1` executed on
node-2
was the previously executed `pcs cluster stop node-1`. In my setup SBD
seems integrated with corosync/pacemaker and the latter command stopped the
sbd service on node-1.
Killing corosync on node-1 instead of  `pcs cluster stop node-1` fences
node-1 as expected:

[root at node-1 ~]# killall -15 corosync
Broadcast message from systemd-journald at node-1 (Sat 2016-06-25 21:55:07
EDT):
sbd[4761]:  /dev/sdb1:    emerg: do_exit: Rebooting system: off

I'm left with further questions: how to setup fence_sbd for the fenced node
to shutdown instead of reboot?
Both action=off or mode=onoff action=off options passed to fence_sbd when
creating the MyStonith resource result in a reboot.

[root at node-2 ~]# pcs stonith show MyStonith
 Resource: MyStonith (class=stonith type=fence_sbd)
  Attributes: devices=/dev/sdb1 power_timeout=21 action=off
  Operations: monitor interval=60s (MyStonith-monitor-interval-60s)

[root at node-2 ~]# pcs status
Cluster name: mycluster
Last updated: Tue Jun 28 04:55:43 2016        Last change: Tue Jun 28
04:48:03 2016 by root via cibadmin on node-1
Stack: corosync
Current DC: node-3 (version 1.1.13-10.el7_2.2-44eb2dd) - partition with
quorum
3 nodes and 1 resource configured

Online: [ node-1 node-2 node-3 ]

Full list of resources:

 MyStonith    (stonith:fence_sbd):    Started node-2

PCSD Status:
  node-1: Online
  node-2: Online
  node-3: Online

Daemon Status:
  corosync: active/disabled
  pacemaker: active/disabled
  pcsd: active/enabled

Starting from the above cluster state:
[root at node-2 ~]# stonith_admin -F node-1
results also in a reboot of node-1 instead of shutdown.

/var/log/messages after the last command show "reboot" on node-2
...
Jun 28 04:49:39 localhost stonith-ng[3081]:  notice: Client
stonith_admin.3179.fbc038ee wants to fence (off) 'node-1' with device
'(any)'
Jun 28 04:49:39 localhost stonith-ng[3081]:  notice: Initiating remote
operation off for node-1: 8aea4f12-538d-41ab-bf20-0c8b0f72e2a3 (0)
Jun 28 04:49:39 localhost stonith-ng[3081]:  notice: watchdog can not fence
(off) node-1: static-list
Jun 28 04:49:40 localhost stonith-ng[3081]:  notice: MyStonith can fence
(off) node-1: dynamic-list
Jun 28 04:49:40 localhost stonith-ng[3081]:  notice: watchdog can not fence
(off) node-1: static-list
Jun 28 04:49:44 localhost stonith-ng[3081]:  notice: crm_update_peer_proc:
Node node-1[1] - state is now lost (was member)
Jun 28 04:49:44 localhost stonith-ng[3081]:  notice: Removing node-1/1 from
the membership list
Jun 28 04:49:44 localhost stonith-ng[3081]:  notice: Purged 1 peers with
id=1 and/or uname=node-1 from the membership cache
Jun 28 04:49:45 localhost stonith-ng[3081]:  notice: MyStonith can fence
(reboot) node-1: dynamic-list
Jun 28 04:49:45 localhost stonith-ng[3081]:  notice: watchdog can not fence
(reboot) node-1: static-list
Jun 28 04:49:46 localhost stonith-ng[3081]:  notice: Operation reboot of
node-1 by node-3 for crmd.3063 at node-3.36859c4e: OK
Jun 28 04:50:00 localhost stonith-ng[3081]:  notice: Operation 'off' [3200]
(call 2 from stonith_admin.3179) for host 'node-1' with device 'MyStonith'
returned: 0 (OK)
Jun 28 04:50:00 localhost stonith-ng[3081]:  notice: Operation off of
node-1 by node-2 for stonith_admin.3179 at node-2.8aea4f12: OK
...


Another question (I think the question is valid also for a potential SUSE
setup): What is the proper way of operating a cluster with SBD after node-1
was fenced?

[root at node-2 ~]# sbd -d /dev/sdb1 list
0    node-3    clear
1    node-2    clear
2    node-1    off    node-2

I found that executing sbd watch on node-1 clears the SBD status:
[root at node-1 ~]# sbd -d /dev/sdb1 watch
[root at node-1 ~]# sbd -d /dev/sdb1 list
0    node-3    clear
1    node-2    clear
2    node-1    clear
Making sure that sbd is not running on node-1 (I can do that because node-1
is currently not a part of the cluster)
[root at node-1 ~]# killall -15 sbd
I have to kill sbd because it's integrated with corosync and corosync fails
to start on node-1 with sbd already running.

I can now join node-1 to the cluster from node-2:
[root at node-2 ~]# pcs cluster start node-1


Marcin


> >
> > Question 4 (for the future):
> > Assuming the node-1 was fenced, what is the way of operating SBD?
> > I see the sbd lists now:
> > 0       node-3  clear
> > 1       node-1  off    node-2
> > 2       node-2  clear
> > How to clear the status of node-1?
> >
> > Question 5 (also for the future):
> > While the relation 'stonith-timeout = Timeout (msgwait) + 20%' presented
> > at
> >
> https://www.suse.com/documentation/sle_ha/book_sleha/data/sec_ha_storage_protect_fencing.html
> > is clearly described, I wonder about the relation of 'stonith-timeout'
> > to other timeouts like the 'monitor interval=60s' reported by `pcs
> stonith
> > show MyStonith`.
> >
> > Here is how I configure the cluster and test it. The run.sh script is
> > attached.
> >
> > $ sh -x run01.sh 2>&1 | tee run01.txt
> >
> > with the result:
> >
> > $ cat run01.txt
> >
> > Each block below shows the executed ssh command and the result.
> >
> > ############################
> > ssh node-1 -c sudo su - -c 'pcs cluster auth -u hacluster -p password
> node-1
> > node-2 node-3'
> > node-1: Authorized
> > node-3: Authorized
> > node-2: Authorized
> >
> >
> >
> > ############################
> > ssh node-1 -c sudo su - -c 'pcs cluster setup --name mycluster node-1
> node-2
> > node-3'
> > Shutting down pacemaker/corosync services...
> > Redirecting to /bin/systemctl stop  pacemaker.service
> > Redirecting to /bin/systemctl stop  corosync.service
> > Killing any remaining services...
> > Removing all cluster configuration files...
> > node-1: Succeeded
> > node-2: Succeeded
> > node-3: Succeeded
> > Synchronizing pcsd certificates on nodes node-1, node-2, node-3...
> > node-1: Success
> > node-3: Success
> > node-2: Success
> > Restaring pcsd on the nodes in order to reload the certificates...
> > node-1: Success
> > node-3: Success
> > node-2: Success
> >
> >
> >
> > ############################
> > ssh node-1 -c sudo su - -c 'pcs cluster start --all'
> > node-3: Starting Cluster...
> > node-2: Starting Cluster...
> > node-1: Starting Cluster...
> >
> >
> >
> > ############################
> > ssh node-1 -c sudo su - -c 'corosync-cfgtool -s'
> > Printing ring status.
> > Local node ID 1
> > RING ID 0
> >     id    = 192.168.10.11
> >     status    = ring 0 active with no faults
> >
> >
> > ############################
> > ssh node-1 -c sudo su - -c 'pcs status corosync'
> > Membership information
> > ----------------------
> >     Nodeid      Votes Name
> >          1          1 node-1 (local)
> >          2          1 node-2
> >          3          1 node-3
> >
> >
> >
> > ############################
> > ssh node-1 -c sudo su - -c 'pcs status'
> > Cluster name: mycluster
> > WARNING: no stonith devices and stonith-enabled is not false
> > Last updated: Sat Jun 25 15:40:51 2016        Last change: Sat Jun 25
> > 15:40:33 2016 by hacluster via crmd on node-2
> > Stack: corosync
> > Current DC: node-2 (version 1.1.13-10.el7_2.2-44eb2dd) - partition with
> > quorum
> > 3 nodes and 0 resources configured
> > Online: [ node-1 node-2 node-3 ]
> > Full list of resources:
> > PCSD Status:
> >   node-1: Online
> >   node-2: Online
> >   node-3: Online
> > Daemon Status:
> >   corosync: active/disabled
> >   pacemaker: active/disabled
> >   pcsd: active/enabled
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ############################
> > ssh node-1 -c sudo su - -c 'sbd -d /dev/sdb1 list'
> > 0    node-3    clear
> > 1    node-2    clear
> > 2    node-1    clear
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ############################
> > ssh node-1 -c sudo su - -c 'sbd -d /dev/sdb1 dump'
> > ==Dumping header on disk /dev/sdb1
> > Header version     : 2.1
> > UUID               : 79f28167-a207-4f2a-a723-aa1c00bf1dee
> > Number of slots    : 255
> > Sector size        : 512
> > Timeout (watchdog) : 10
> > Timeout (allocate) : 2
> > Timeout (loop)     : 1
> > Timeout (msgwait)  : 20
> > ==Header on disk /dev/sdb1 is dumped
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ############################
> > ssh node-1 -c sudo su - -c 'pcs stonith list'
> > fence_sbd - Fence agent for sbd
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ############################
> > ssh node-1 -c sudo su - -c 'pcs stonith create MyStonith fence_sbd
> > devices=/dev/sdb1 power_timeout=21 action=off'
> > ssh node-1 -c sudo su - -c 'pcs property set stonith-enabled=true'
> > ssh node-1 -c sudo su - -c 'pcs property set stonith-timeout=24s'
> > ssh node-1 -c sudo su - -c 'pcs property'
> > Cluster Properties:
> >  cluster-infrastructure: corosync
> >  cluster-name: mycluster
> >  dc-version: 1.1.13-10.el7_2.2-44eb2dd
> >  have-watchdog: true
> >  stonith-enabled: true
> >  stonith-timeout: 24s
> >  stonith-watchdog-timeout: 10s
> >
> >
> >
> > ############################
> > ssh node-1 -c sudo su - -c 'pcs stonith show MyStonith'
> >  Resource: MyStonith (class=stonith type=fence_sbd)
> >   Attributes: devices=/dev/sdb1 power_timeout=21 action=off
> >   Operations: monitor interval=60s (MyStonith-monitor-interval-60s)
> >
> >
> >
> > ############################
> > ssh node-1 -c sudo su - -c 'pcs cluster stop node-1 '
> > node-1: Stopping Cluster (pacemaker)...
> > node-1: Stopping Cluster (corosync)...
> >
> >
> >
> > ############################
> > ssh node-2 -c sudo su - -c 'pcs status'
> > Cluster name: mycluster
> > Last updated: Sat Jun 25 15:42:29 2016        Last change: Sat Jun 25
> > 15:41:09 2016 by root via cibadmin on node-1
> > Stack: corosync
> > Current DC: node-2 (version 1.1.13-10.el7_2.2-44eb2dd) - partition with
> > quorum
> > 3 nodes and 1 resource configured
> > Online: [ node-2 node-3 ]
> > OFFLINE: [ node-1 ]
> > Full list of resources:
> >  MyStonith    (stonith:fence_sbd):    Started node-2
> > PCSD Status:
> >   node-1: Online
> >   node-2: Online
> >   node-3: Online
> > Daemon Status:
> >   corosync: active/disabled
> >   pacemaker: active/disabled
> >   pcsd: active/enabled
> >
> >
> >
> > ############################
> > ssh node-2 -c sudo su - -c 'stonith_admin -F node-1 '
> >
> >
> >
> > ############################
> > ssh node-2 -c sudo su - -c 'grep stonith-ng /var/log/messages'
> > Jun 25 15:40:11 localhost stonith-ng[3102]:  notice: Additional logging
> > available in /var/log/cluster/corosync.log
> > Jun 25 15:40:11 localhost stonith-ng[3102]:  notice: Connecting to
> cluster
> > infrastructure: corosync
> > Jun 25 15:40:11 localhost stonith-ng[3102]:  notice:
> crm_update_peer_proc:
> > Node node-2[2] - state is now member (was (null))
> > Jun 25 15:40:12 localhost stonith-ng[3102]:  notice: Watching for stonith
> > topology changes
> > Jun 25 15:40:12 localhost stonith-ng[3102]:  notice: Added 'watchdog' to
> the
> > device list (1 active devices)
> > Jun 25 15:40:12 localhost stonith-ng[3102]:  notice:
> crm_update_peer_proc:
> > Node node-3[3] - state is now member (was (null))
> > Jun 25 15:40:12 localhost stonith-ng[3102]:  notice:
> crm_update_peer_proc:
> > Node node-1[1] - state is now member (was (null))
> > Jun 25 15:40:12 localhost stonith-ng[3102]:  notice: New watchdog timeout
> > 10s (was 0s)
> > Jun 25 15:41:03 localhost stonith-ng[3102]:  notice: Relying on watchdog
> > integration for fencing
> > Jun 25 15:41:04 localhost stonith-ng[3102]:  notice: Added 'MyStonith' to
> > the device list (2 active devices)
> > Jun 25 15:41:54 localhost stonith-ng[3102]:  notice:
> crm_update_peer_proc:
> > Node node-1[1] - state is now lost (was member)
> > Jun 25 15:41:54 localhost stonith-ng[3102]:  notice: Removing node-1/1
> from
> > the membership list
> > Jun 25 15:41:54 localhost stonith-ng[3102]:  notice: Purged 1 peers with
> > id=1 and/or uname=node-1 from the membership cache
> > Jun 25 15:42:33 localhost stonith-ng[3102]:  notice: Client
> > stonith_admin.3288.eb400ac9 wants to fence (off) 'node-1' with device
> > '(any)'
> > Jun 25 15:42:33 localhost stonith-ng[3102]:  notice: Initiating remote
> > operation off for node-1: 848cd1e9-55e4-4abc-8d7a-3762eaaf9ab4 (0)
> > Jun 25 15:42:33 localhost stonith-ng[3102]:  notice: watchdog can not
> fence
> > (off) node-1: static-list
> > Jun 25 15:42:33 localhost stonith-ng[3102]:  notice: MyStonith can fence
> > (off) node-1: dynamic-list
> > Jun 25 15:42:33 localhost stonith-ng[3102]:  notice: watchdog can not
> fence
> > (off) node-1: static-list
> > Jun 25 15:42:54 localhost stonith-ng[3102]:  notice: Operation 'off'
> [3309]
> > (call 2 from stonith_admin.3288) for host 'node-1' with device
> 'MyStonith'
> > returned: 0 (OK)
> > Jun 25 15:42:54 localhost stonith-ng[3102]:  notice: Operation off of
> node-1
> > by node-2 for stonith_admin.3288 at node-2.848cd1e9: OK
> > Jun 25 15:42:54 localhost stonith-ng[3102]: warning:
> new_event_notification
> > (3102-3288-12): Broken pipe (32)
> > Jun 25 15:42:54 localhost stonith-ng[3102]: warning: st_notify_fence
> > notification of client stonith_admin.3288.eb400a failed: Broken pipe
> (-32)
> >
> >
> >
> > ############################
> > ssh node-1 -c sudo su - -c 'sbd -d /dev/sdb1 list'
> > 0    node-3    clear
> > 1    node-2    clear
> > 2    node-1    off    node-2
> >
> >
> >
> > ############################
> > ssh node-1 -c sudo su - -c 'uptime'
> >  15:43:31 up 21 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.25, 0.18, 0.11
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Marcin
> >
> >
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